Microscopic tardigrade fossil found in 16-million-year-old amber

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Life 6 October 2021

By Christa Lesté-Lasserre

Paradoryphoribius chronocaribbeus

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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