Did you already know that the water bear build in foreign DNA❔👀
Tardigrade, also known as water bears, are found around the world in the ocean, in fresh water and in humid land habitats like moss pillows. They are 50 to 1500 micrometers in size and occur in the mountains of the Himalayas as well as in the deep sea and the Antarctic. If a water bear is frozen at minus 80 degrees for a year or ten, it will scurry around again 20 minutes after thawing.
A water bear eating The funny little animals are only active when they are covered with a film of water, but they can withstand dry periods and temperature extremes - as well as a strongly fluctuating salt content in the water, high pressure, radiation or a lack of oxygen. Researchers have found that they can not only repair their own genetic material, but also incorporate foreign DNA. They are the only known animal species to survive even in the vacuum of space. Scientists have now found another extreme of the water bears. They have so much foreign DNA in their genome like no other animal is known. Almost a sixth come from bacteria, plants, fungi and archaea.
