Microscopic tardigrade fossil found in 16-million-year-old amber
Tardigrades, tough microscopic animals that can survive the vacuum of space, don’t fossilise well – a new specimen from ancient amber is just the third ever found
Lateral presumption of Paradoryphoribius chronocaribbeus Ninon Robin (Harvard/NJIT)
A caller taxon of tardigrade – microscopic animals that lucifer a transverse betwixt a pig and a carnivore – has been discovered successful 16-million-year-old Dominican amber.
Made celebrated successful the 2018 movie Ant-Man and the Wasp, tardigrades are renowned for their hardiness. In 2007 immoderate were sent into orbit during the European Space Agency’s FOTON-M3 ngo and became the archetypal known animals to survive the vacuum of space.
Molecular studies suggest they originated astir 500 cardinal years ago, but their microscopic size and inclination to rapidly …
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