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What is water bear?
The microscopic tardigrade—also known as the water bear—is the only animal that can survive the cold, irradiated vacuum of outer space. They are a class of microscopic animals with eight limbs and a strange, alien-like behavior.Water Bears are tiny animals you need a microscope to see. They live in mosses, lichens, and liverworts. A few species live on plants in fresh water.

Water Bears have eight legs with four claws on each. They have short, stout bodies in the shape of a cylinder.

The mouths of Water Bears have sharp pointy objects, called stylets. They use their stylets to cut into moss leaves or algae, their main foods. Then they suck the juices from the plant.


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