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Jelly: Earth's time machine, uncovering its amazing adaptability and miracle of recovery

author:Ignoring Newton's laws

There is a creature on Earth that is known as the "time machine of life" because it can survive in extremely harsh environments, even freezing for hundreds of years, but once the conditions are right, it can be resurrected and resume life activities. This creature is the famous "tardigrade".

Jelly: Earth's time machine, uncovering its amazing adaptability and miracle of recovery

A tardigrade, also known as a tardigrade, is a very small, multicellular organism, usually only 0.1 to 0.5 mm in size. They live mainly in sediments in fresh and seawater, such as sand, mud and moss. With a soft body and four pairs of legs, the tardigrade looks like a tiny bear. Their bodies have a protective film called "graphics" that protects them from external harm.

Jelly: Earth's time machine, uncovering its amazing adaptability and miracle of recovery

Jellyfish are amazingly adaptable and tolerant, and they are able to survive in extreme environments such as high temperature, low temperature, high pressure, low pressure, extreme drought, radiation, and chemical poisons. In extreme drought situations, tardigrades curl up and enter a "tardice state," a dormant state that can survive for years or even decades without water and food. When the environmental conditions are right, they will restart their life activities.

Jelly: Earth's time machine, uncovering its amazing adaptability and miracle of recovery

The most amazing thing is that tardigrades can survive in extreme low temperatures for hundreds of years. In Antarctica, scientists once took samples of tardigrades from glaciers that had been frozen in ice for more than 200 years. When the scientists thawed these samples, the tardigrades miraculously came back to life and resumed their normal life activities. The discovery shocked the entire scientific community and led to a deeper understanding of life's astonishing resilience.

In addition to their ability to survive in extreme environments, tardigrades have other amazing properties. They can repair themselves, and when the body is damaged, they can repair themselves by splitting and regenerating. In addition, tardigrades are also resistant to radiation, so they are widely used in space research and radiation protection.

Overall, the tardigrade is an amazing creature that is more adaptable and tolerant than one might think. Therefore, many scientists are very interested in the study of tardigrades and hope to explore their mysteries in depth.

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