This paper is a short news article on the most resilient animals known on Earth: “water bears” or “moss piglets”. Cryobiologists from Tokyo's National Institute of Polar Research recently cemented the resilient reputation of these tiny creatures when they revived some “moss piglets” that had been frosted for thirty years. Not only did they survive being frosted for three decades, but one of them even laid eggs, fourteen of which actually hatched. In another research the team coordinated by K. I. J?nsson from Kristianstad University launched tardigrades into space on the FOTON-M3 spacecraft on low-Earth orbit in 2007. Exposed to open space conditions, most of the water bears survived exposure to vacuum and cosmic radiation, with some even surviving deadly levels of UV rays
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