Tardigrades Have A Surprising Weakness: Snail Slime

Ashley Alvarado
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 14:32:26 -0700

Tardigrades are perhaps the most resilient creatures on Earth. Popularly called water bears, or moss piglets, they can thrive in the most extreme of conditions — from the peaks of mountains to the bottom of oceans, to even the vacuum of space. Now, researchers have finally found the one thing capable of killing the otherwise indestructible microscopic organisms — snail slime.