{"id":87207,"date":"2019-01-30T18:04:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T02:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/tardigrades-frozen-for-30-years-spring-back-to-life"},"modified":"2019-01-30T18:04:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T02:04:26","slug":"tardigrades-frozen-for-30-years-spring-back-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/tardigrades-frozen-for-30-years-spring-back-to-life","title":{"rendered":"Tardigrades, Frozen for 30 Years, Spring Back to Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tardigrades-frozen-for-30-years-spring-back-to-life2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can freeze them, burn them, dry them out or even blast them into space, but humble tardigrades can survive it all.<\/p>\n<p>As a demonstration of tardigrade power, a new experiment has shown that even locking the critters in a block of ice for three decades fails to deliver the ultimate knockout.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese researchers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0011224015300134\" target=\"_blank\">successfully brought<\/a> two tardigrades \u2014 often called \u201cwater bears\u201d for their claws and head shape \u2014 back to life after being frozen for 30 years. A separate team of Japanese researchers with the 24th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition discovered the eight-legged, microscopic pair of animals back in 1983 in a frozen sample of moss, which was kept below freezing to the present day.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/d-brief\/2016\/01\/18\/frozen-for-30-years-a-tardigrade-springs-back-to-life\/\">http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/d-brief\/2016\/01\/18\/frozen-...k-to-life\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can freeze them, burn them, dry them out or even blast them into space, but humble tardigrades can survive it all. As a demonstration of tardigrade power, a new experiment has shown that even locking the critters in a block of ice for three decades fails to deliver the ultimate knockout. Japanese researchers successfully [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}