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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Added media. | Oct 30, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Royal Society Publishing - Proceedings B - A tardigrade in Dominican amber. | Sep 18, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: PNAS - Tardigrades exhibit robust interlimb coordination across walking speeds and terrains. | May 28, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: NBC News - What is a tardigrade? | Mar 03, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Tardigrades in Space Research - Past and Future. | Dec 09, 2025 | ||
| Media added. | Nov 04, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - The Drawing Room - Why the tardigrade deserves to be made into art. | Oct 24, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Physiology - New insights into osmobiosis and chemobiosis in tardigrades. | Sep 13, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cell Press - Current Biology - Tardigrades: Trained to be hardy in the face of DNA damage. | Jul 31, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Mar 20, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Tardigrada (PDF). | Feb 11, 2025 | ||
| Added video. | Nov 04, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: BioMed Central - Zoological Letters - X-ray imaging of a water bear offers a new look at tardigrade internal anatomy. | Sep 11, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Royal Society of Biology - The Biologist - Tardigrades in Space. | May 28, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Guardian - Tardigrades: Nature's Great Survivors. | Apr 19, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Nature - Extremotolerant tardigrade genome and improved radiotolerance of human cultured cells by tardigrade-unique protein. | Mar 05, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture - Tardigrades. | Dec 27, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Illinois Wesleyan University - Species Distribution Project - Tardigrade Facts. | Oct 17, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Arizona State University - Ask A Biologist - All About Tardigrades. | Jul 05, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Carleton College - Science Education Resource Center - Tardigrades. | Apr 28, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Tardigrades in Space Research - Past and Future. | Jan 05, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Animal Diversity Web - Tardigrada. | Aug 26, 2022 | ||
| Changed "drys" to "dries." | Aug 23, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: LiveScience - What are tardigrades and why are they nearly indestructible? | Jul 09, 2018 | ||
| Added scanning electron micrograph of a tardigrade. | Feb 28, 2017 | ||
| Added description of the tardigrade's tun state. Clarified descriptions of tardigrade circulation, respiration, and reproduction. Added alternative title "moss piglet," and updated species count. | Feb 28, 2017 | ||
| Added new Web site: Earth-Life Web Productions - The Phylum Tardigrada. | Apr 06, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Palaeos - Tardigrada. | Apr 06, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Fairfax County Public Schools - Water Bear. | Apr 06, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College - Microbial Life Educational Resources - Tardigrade. | Mar 09, 2009 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Nov 26, 2008 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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