If Earth Were Hosting An Alien Species, This Is What It Would Look Like

Water bears are some of my favorite critters. :) And I think that is the best picture of one I've seen.

That but is so so CUTE!
I want to name is Shuancy. Just joking, smile! ;)
Oh my, I hope my comment wasn't thought of being sexist.

This is one adorable BUG!

That "nose" is just unreal, looks fake, too perfect.

Like these Tardigrades found on Mars imaged by the Phoenix Landers Microscopic Imager.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LUHZ-aMbZHw

Ron Bennett

With such tremendous survival capabilities why haven't they become the dominant life form?

2rlb2

looks photoshopped

I wonder what it looks like in a swim suit?

LoL

gizmowiz, who said they weren't? ;)

Are these things from Gallifrey?

I wonder if Nasa will design space suits that have similar characteristics to the traits of the tardigrade.

Bagpipes100 No it isn't Photoshoped, it the original image was stretched a bit but when you refer to photoshoped you are assuming it is fake. Photoshop was used to make the color from raw RGB images and to increase the size of the images to make a time lapse image but it is not fake. All one has to do is go to JPL Phoenix Landers web site look up the microscopic imager raw images on that sol and they will find the images used in the time lapse movie, it’s a lot of work but if you put the time in you will see for themselves that the images are not fake..

Ron Bennett

They should teach these things to eat BED BUGS!
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Sorry, it doesn't look real to me ( and I believe in fairies, and that mermaids once existed!) .I need more convincing. phylum, class ,order, family, genus,, species please. Also , diagram of internal systems to understand how it
works. They never mentioned this thing in my Invertebrate Zoology class, nor in Entemology.

Edie, you're not sounding like you have much of a scientific background to me. If you had, well, this IS the Internet - you might have found a simple search for the term 'tardigrade' enlightening - all 800+ species of phylum tardigrada.

@ Edie; So if they didn't mention ear mites by name in one of your classes then my dog doesn't actually get ear mites? What about seahorses? Are they real? Do we need to check with you to know whether or not you'll vett every creature found so far? Apparently with your two classes, you know them all. Tardigrade phylum my butt.

God made a bug vacuum cleaner.
How cute!

Edie(above),keep in mind ,this is the actual future,from your time

OK get off Edie, the article could have included a few more facts and an enhanced image, as this one is, often look fake. 15 years ago or a little better there was no Google, now wrap your head around that all of you smart asses that grew up with it. Most of the planet did not, and most of us went to a brick and mortar school with real books. Information did not change every 24 hours or less, or if it did, it didn't matter. The other problem is the internet is one of the most unreliable sources of information followed by the corporate controlled media. The next great lie perpetrated on people that will cost thousands or even millions of their lives will start on the internet, and just like the lie you swallowed in November, it will be this generation that will carry the stench of the liberal agenda into history. I just hope it is not at the expense of this great experiment. There is so much we do not know about the very place we live on that it really is scary. 2/3rds of this planet is covered in an ocean hiding untold millions of life forms, and we are skipping ahead to Mars, if we do not understand this planet, we do not have a prayer of understanding Mars. This kind of discovery, which is why it wasn't in your books Edie, is happening at an ever increasing rate. This reminds me of the louse that lives in your eyebrows. If it wasn't for us "old folks", none of you young folks would even be here, before you jump on someone again jack1466, remember you were once a dribble running down your mom's leg and Edie may have put it there! I engineered and built this actual future you enjoy, what are you going to contribute jack?

It is really shocking this creature, I am dismayed her appearance, but it really is a marvel of survival, his stay at extreme temperatures is admirable.
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This is pretty impressive but sort of underwhelming in the face of the alien life form that was able to survive in OUR atmosphere, or at least temporarily. Check out the doc "Sirius". It's going to change the disparity between believers and non-believers in alien life.

http://www.yekra.com/sirius/#!/deployment_code=39589358mlet22

This is pretty impressive but sort of underwhelming in the face of the alien life form that was able to survive in OUR atmosphere, or at least temporarily. Check out the doc "Sirius". It's going to change the disparity between believers and non-believers in alien life.

http:// www. yekra.com/sirius/#!/deployment_code= 39589358mlet22