Uploaded September 2017 | Updated September 2026, 13 hours ago

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Tardigrades, AKA water bears, are famous for their indestructibility. Heat, cold, radiation, outer space; they can survive it all. So, what would it take to kill one?

Read the full story here: discovermagazine.com/environment/what-would-it-take-to-wipe-out-all-life-on-earth

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