"About whom or what, forgive?" - you ask. Not everyone knows about these amazing creatures. The tigers are the smallest water bears and the most resistant microorganisms on Earth. It will take a lot of effort to exterminate them from the planet. Scientists are still puzzling over their origins and some peculiarities.
Meet: slow-moving and 25 amazing facts about them.
1. These are very small creatures, the size of which does not exceed 1.5 millimeters.
2. A small water bear has eight legs, and on each of them there are as many claws.
3. Pacificers older than dinosaurs are ... 400 million years old.
4. In food, a water bear is not fastidious. Do without it, he can as much as 10 years!
5. Boil the water bear in alcohol, and it will survive. Place it in a water space with a pressure higher than in the ocean, and it will withstand this test.
6. Any environment for them is acceptable. The astronauts conducted an experiment: they released them into space without any protection. Nothing happened to the bears.
7. Live bears, as already understood, can be in any environment, but they love water and wet places most of all.
8. Water bears, too, very well tolerate both very low and high temperatures. For example, - 200 and +150 degrees C.
9. Do not be afraid of bears and radiation. Scientists, in an attempt to exterminate animals, put them in a radiation environment a thousand times greater than that capable of killing a person. But they still survived.
10. The amazing ability of bears to bear all the scientists called "cryptobiosis." Bears have another ability: they cut off the metabolism, falling into a half-dead state, which makes it impossible to destroy them.
11. Many scientists are building the hypothesis that the slow-moving is an alien from other civilizations. They flew to Earth on a comet.
12. And again about radiation. The protein contained in their body is used by scientists to protect people from radiation.
13. None of the thousands of species known to scientists are quiet. And they assume that there are more of them.
14. Quicksilver - the only creatures that can survive and continue their life in the event of a catastrophe on our planet.
15. After being in the water and drying out, the shape of the body of the throttle resembles a barrel. To protect themselves, they begin to release antifreeze and trehalose. Scientists do not abandon the idea of repeating this process to protect the sperm and egg.
16. Food of some water bears are plant cells. Some species prefer to eat other living things.
17. The small size of the tidbits does not prevent them from being dangerous and deadly creatures. They attack their victims with the help of sharp teeth like a knife.
18. If, without food, the speedboats can cost 10 years, then they are insatiable in their marital relations. Observations have shown that the intimate process of ticks lasts no less than an hour.
19. And some types of females quietly just do not need sex in order to continue offspring. During parthenogenesis, the female simply releases information from the DNA into one of the eggs.
20. Although many could not hear about the quiet, however, they were discovered long ago. Their discoverer is the priest from Germany Johann August Efroim Geze. This event took place in 1773.
21. Another amazing fact about radiation. The throats are not only not affected by it, but they can easily restore their DNA after radiation exposure.
22. Water bears can themselves create an ecosystem. For example, a volcanic eruption is an ideal option for creating a dead zone.
23. Cubs are quietly born already with adult cells that do not divide, but simply increase their size.
24. The throats are thieves. And they do not steal food, but DNA, solely for the sake of their survival. The victims of their theft are plant cells, bacteria and fungi.
25. Dehydration is also not a problem for them. With it, they fight, turning into a glass that can not be knocked out. Scientists are increasingly deepening the study of this ability, believing that this can lead to an improvement in electronic devices.