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Tardigrades are microscopic animals that periodically shed their tough external covering, called a cuticle, via molting. Scientists have divided the tardigrade phylum, Tardigrada, into three classes: ...

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Tardigrades, near-microscopic animals that live in water and sort of look like swimming nightmare bears, are stellar at tolerating extreme environments. However, they are not stellar at fossilizing ...