What is faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound? Don’t look up to the sky. It’s not a bird, not a plane, not Superman. It’s the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Imagine a creature so small it can fit between the grains ...

Tardigrades – also known as moss piglets – prefer damp environments, but they can survive just about anywhere. Thomas Shahan/Flickr, CC BY-SA A newly discovered protein from Earth’s toughest animal is ...

Tardigrades are eight-legged, translucent, microscopic animals. They crawl within dirt, moss, and lichen, and also live in the world’s harshest regions such as mountaintops, the deep sea, and the ...

Learn how water bears (tardigrades) reacted to simulated Martian regolith, what the results reveal about toxic compounds in ...

If you're going to try "tattooing" a microscopic animal, it would make sense to select one of the toughest creatures on the planet. That's exactly what scientists have done with the tardigrade, and ...

Watch out, tardigrades: The first life form to colonize Mars may be a hardy desert moss, according to a recent study. A team of researchers recently put a desert moss called Syntrichia caninervis ...

The moss isn’t quite as hardy as the reigning king of extremophiles, the tardigrade, but it put up an impressive showing in an experiment where scientists exposed sporophytes (the reproductive ...

Imagine an animal able to survive any harsh condition known to man. This animal actually exists right in your own backyard! Tardigrades, also known as Water Bears, are water-dwelling, microscopic ...