Back in 2019, a space probe carrying a cargo of live tardigrades crash-landed on the lunar surface.
The microscopic specimen was found trapped inside a lump of amber dating back to the Miocene epoch.
Combining tardigrade DNA with our own could one day improve our ability to survive for long periods in space.
Thousands of the Earth's most indestructible creatures may have been deposited on the lunar surface.
A strange new species of tardigrade, or 'water bear', has been discovered in a Japanese car park.
Scientists have identified a microscopic species capable of surviving almost any cataclysmic event.