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Today's episode is all about our favourite celebrity invertebrate - Bean! Why are scientists fascinated with tardigrades? Are tardigrades actually immortal? Can they survive space? Why do we think they’re the toughest animal on the planet? Let's get into it.

[General Info/Taxonomy]
https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=155166#null
https://iris.unimore.it/retrieve/handle/11380/1178608/227296/Actual%20checklist%20of%20Tardigrada%2036th%20Edition.pdf
https://www.microscopemaster.com/tardigrades.html
https://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/topics/tardigrade/index.html
https://www.livescience.com/57985-tardigrade-facts.html

[Resilience of Tardigrades - Are They Extremophiles?]
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-05796-x
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/science/the-tardigrade-water-bear.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1998Natur.395..853S/abstract
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09553000600972956?journalCode=irab20&
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(08)00805-1?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982208008051%3Fshowall%3Dtru

[Climate Research]
https://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_boothby_meet_the_tardigrade_the_toughest_animal_on_earth/transcript?language=en
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12808
https://www.nature.com/news/tardigrade-protein-helps-human-dna-withstand-radiation-1.20648#/b1

[Other Sources]
https://youtu.be/YewstZVXYc8
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https://youtu.be/slYQTMUz62s
https://youtu.be/eXBkmLzBHZk
https://youtu.be/7W194GQ6fHI
https://youtu.be/73CbKzah8RU
https://youtu.be/ccmnSXJG3QE
https://youtu.be/2eb8EQXgfas
https://youtu.be/W9WWysGBAlU
https://youtu.be/jmOBoippG1M
https://youtu.be/s07dQFkdrS8
https://youtu.be/L5G6591GfZk
https://youtu.be/aHsVyb_VfeA

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