Study: Water bears can survive in space

Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 14:07 in Biology & Nature

KRISTIANSTAD, Sweden, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Swedish scientists say water bears -- tardigrades -- have become the first animals to have survived exposure to the vacuum and radiation of space.

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