The Tardigrade: Practically Invisible, Indestructible ‘Water Bears’

[Hooke]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/science/the-tardigrade-water-bear.html

[scardine]

The PBS show "The cat in the Hat"[1] has an episode on these small beasts (episode 202[2]).

  [1] http://pbskids.org/catinthehat/video/
  [2] http://www.pbs.org/parents/catinthehat/about_prog_epi_desc_201_210.html

[dang]

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9196868.

[mr_overalls]

Does anyone know if its full genome has been sequenced?

[elektromekatron]

I wonder how many of these things have got to Mars ahead of us.