Talk:Tardigrade

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I have added some sections and rearranged the paragraphs to make it a bit more logical (hopefully ;) GregRobson 23:48, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

1 Tardigrade sketch or image
2 They are Eutelic
3 -272.8 degrees?
4 the water bear as a polar bear

[edit] Tardigrade sketch or image

A sketch or an image of how the tardigrades actually look like would improve this article a lot. Preferably a sketch, as it is often hard to make out the details on images on such tiny creatures.

Jens Nielsen 22:55, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

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You can google search an image of the Tardigrade and obtain a microscopic image of the creature, however i am not familiar with the proper process for uploading images and what not, so if any are aware of it please help

f1r3r41n 18:02, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

There is a cool one here http://tardigrade.acnatsci.org/tardigrades/pic311.png Suppafly 21:04, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Copyrighted. Pavel Vozenilek 01:17, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] They are Eutelic

Just noting this here for when I come back to add to this article. Apparently, these guys are Eutelic-- the adults all have the same number of cells (sounds impossible, I know). See http://www.stanford.edu/~ashishg/robert-williamson-eutelic.html . Also, we need an article for the term Eutelic. JDG 09:04, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

> I have several images i'm willing to upload, they're from my BSc dissertaion, some are handrawn specifically detailing the general anatomy and CNS of the tardigraede. I will investigate the uploading process.

[edit] -272.8 degrees?

I have been unable to find anything on the 'net saying that tardigrades can survive -272.8 degrees Celsius. I have been able to find the following site: http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/topics/tardigrade/index.html, which says that they can survive -200 degrees Celsius, which sounds much more reasonable considering that "the Boomerang Nebula, with a temperature of -272.15 Celsius ; 1K, is the coldest place known outside a laboratory." (Absolute zero) Could someone change this? I've found a site: http://www.earthlife.net/inverts/tardigrada.html --Quadraxis 18:48, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] the water bear as a polar bear

 I took a second year university circumpolar history
class where the water bear was mentioned, definately not as a tiny creature. I remember
the range to be as far south as Cape Cod. The waterbear was hunted to extinction
since it competed for the blubber on seals and walruses.Also,the water bear was fearsome to whalers and settlers. The water bear was most probably the polar bear. Can anyone confirm this
to be true?H. Lorne 01:33, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

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