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Rare Fossils Give Clues to How Tardigrades Survived Mass Extinctions by Hitting the Snooze Button
A new study of the fossils of early tardigrades is shedding light on their evolution, including when and why the eight-legged ...
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Tara Wu
She covers science, society, culture and their intersection. Scientists have only four known tardigrade fossils, which preserve insights into how the hardy critters evolved their hibernation-like ...