(a.) A tribe of edentates comprising the sloths. They are noted for the slowness of their movements when on the ground. See Sloth, 3.
(a.) An order of minute aquatic arachnids; -- called also bear animalcules, sloth animalcules, and water bears.
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(1) is congruent with the current hypothesis of the phylogenetic relations between fossil and recent Tardigrada.
(2) Comparing this cast to brains of actual Tardigrada, it shows a telencephalic morphology and a pattern of neocortical sulci that resemble more the brain of Bradypus rather than that of Choloepus.
(3) The possible functions of the midgut in Tardigrada are discussed.
Tardigrade
Definition:
(a.) Moving or stepping slowly; slow-paced.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Tardigrada.
(n.) One of the Tardigrada.
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(1) 2007 A study by the European Space Agency found that moss piglets, or tardigrades, a small segmented animal with eight legs, were able to survive for 10 days in open space using only their own natural protection.
(2) The US space advocacy group the Planetary Society has used the Russian mission to carry its Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment (LIFE) that will investigate whether plant seeds, hardy bacteria and tough little creatures called tardigrades, or water-bears, can survive the extreme conditions of spaceflight and so support theories on how life might spread through the cosmos.
(3) Maybe that’s where those indestructible tardigrades came from.