{"id":87735,"date":"2019-02-14T12:08:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T20:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/tardigrade-the-micro-animal-scientists-cant-kill"},"modified":"2019-02-14T12:08:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T20:08:23","slug":"tardigrade-the-micro-animal-scientists-cant-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/tardigrade-the-micro-animal-scientists-cant-kill","title":{"rendered":"Tardigrade: The micro-animal scientists can\u2019t kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tardigrade-the-micro-animal-scientists-cant-kill.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>They\u2019re little battlers, the greatest survivors on the planet and you may have them in your garden, writes Lana Hart.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve been boiled, frozen, put in vacuums, starved, and exposed to unbearable pressures and radiation \u2014 but scientists can\u2019t kill this creature.<\/p>\n<p>They are the only animal to have survived all five of earth\u2019s mass extinctions. This incredible feat is due to their development of unique survival mechanisms not seen in other parts of the animal kingdom.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12176239\">https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12176239<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They\u2019re little battlers, the greatest survivors on the planet and you may have them in your garden, writes Lana Hart. They\u2019ve been boiled, frozen, put in vacuums, starved, and exposed to unbearable pressures and radiation \u2014 but scientists can\u2019t kill this creature. They are the only animal to have survived all five of earth\u2019s mass [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87735","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}