World News | Sarah Kaplan, The Washington Post | Thursday February 18, 2016
The itty bitty water bears were lying in some frozen moss when a team of Japanese researchers discovered them on a trip to the Antarctic back in 1983. But rather than warming up the creatures, called tardigrades, the scientists locked them in a box of ice, shipped them back to Japan and stuck them in a lab for more than thirty years.
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