Tardigrades: Adorable Extremophiles

eggsperiments

How would the moss (Tardigrade food) get onto the other planets?

rococo7777

SO. COOL.

I love it when science is cute (and involves Doctor Who), because then everyone gets interested and can learn something awesome like this. :)

MsReno56

I thought of a Honey Badger finding the question to life, the universe, and everything.

Xcolorized

who thinks he sounds kinda like charlieissocoollike?

mitikarim

@Xcolorized charliesocoolike + time + america = hank

DeiSkittles

that is kind of adorable X3

JuliaR2D2

Honey Badger vs. Tardigrade, who would win?

msDFTBAnerdfighter

they are kinda cute... lol

WafflesandFruitloops

hahahahahahahaha!!! puppy-sized tardigrades running around in The Doctor's Time And Relative Demension In Space machine!!!!!!!

NerdMonkey42

Kind of cute? Water bears are the king of cute! And so, so, so small. They need to be bigger!

Bosco239

QI did it!

bdetvcp

You sounded like Charlie McDonnell at 0:46! :)

ZombieCupcakes1

@KrikXela His last name is McDonnell. -.-

RecipeForDisasta

Space? Space! SPAAAAAAAAAAACE!

24nerdfighter

I went outside and dug up some tardigrade-filled moss. Now i have some adorable pets who i am running tests on. Very fun, and they are so cute!

divisionbell13

@24nerdfighter Lookout, I can hear PETA closing in.

RynRoseable

they should send them to the moon to see if they evolve further. That would take possibly thousands to millions of years but it would still be interesting.

sfgvrich

I thought you were a Christian?

KrikXela

So... is this like chalieissocoollike USA of science? Imagine Charlie McDonald creating a video like this, I think it would be basically the same...

Ayshafr

@KrikXela *McDonnell. And, well, not exactly, though he and Charlie are pretty good friends.

PEEJ012

calling for a Tardigrade t-shirt!

HaninatorForthewin

"...so they shortened it to TARDIS." O.O YES!!! YESS!!! I LOVE THIS PLANET!! ^_^

Mikej1592

Wow, ok, so I am going to move my bet from roaches being the last living thing on earth after humanity destroys itself to Tardigrades. :-)

TimBurtonRules

Time And Relative Dimension/s in Grades :]

AMoonyMonster

I want a tardigrade stuffed animal. <3

ACG123GFB

@AMoonyMonster

You can! Look up Waterbear Giantmicrobes in Google!!!

RainAngel111

Deinococcus radiodurans: b*tch please.

becksays

Moss Piglets is the cutest name I have ever heard.

idrinktoomuchtea

Ha! I actually thought of water bears, and I didn't know they were called tardigrades.

TheDarklord0211

I don't get a word of what this man says, but its so damn interesting!

rebelfanatic93

hank you're on memebase omg!!!! well the science section atleast...

friso1990

For a long time I thought tardigrades are related to the TARDIS. Thank you Hank for educating me.

lukesmall1

Can we take Tardigrades and fire them in space at the fastest speed possible in all directions and see if we colonizing completely random planets with life?????

THAT WOULD BE AWESOME

cubesofspinach

I'm beyond happy that you did an episode about tardigrades.

superelmann

Fahrenheit? I thought this was a science channel?..

johntkucz

I am like a tardigrade at times (when I get into a messed up environemnt sorta)...also...what program do you use for editing??

johntkucz

These shows are great!! I really liked the binary star vid. top qual!

Lizologie

Thank you! I am now amazed by little moss suckers!

You reminded me so much of Charlie when you said, "they're actually kinda cute." :)

devioh99

I want a pet tardigrade...

MegaM7777

came for the TARDIS, stayed for the science...

GracieManonla

I learned about these a few years ago while I was on vacation. My science teacher doubted they exist so I did a report on them and was rewarded with 500 extra credit points. :)

ZiBlueProtractor

This is how the race of Time Lords started! They were Tardigrades that were left on a planet and exposed to the Time Vortex! It all starts now! Build more Tardises for our future masters!

JamesTKirk254

As Picard would say, "That was.............absolutely thrilling!"

TattooLydia

They were sent here by ancient aliens

Ghosthunt64

I got to Water Bear before he did...Thank you, Animal Planet!

Erde04

why not send some of them with the rover going to mars :/ seed the planet maybe in a few billion years we will have some neighbors :/

Doomsquirrels

As a scientist that works with extremophiles I feel somewhat obligated to point out that the definition provided here is incorrect (or at least inaccurate). Extremophiles do, in fact, care where they live, but their habitat would be considered inhospitable to most other organisms. The ability to survive extreme conditions does not make an organism an extremophile - it has to require, or at least grow optimally at, those conditions. It is right there in the name.

arelationshipal

I desperately tried to come up with something else in the time you allotted Hank, but I may have imagined an elephant in a high school...

AndrewDeLong

Hank: "Imagine the toughest animal on ea--"

Me (interrupts): Chuck Norris.

28335

thumbs up to Hank's beardness!

JT112358

soooo lol at the top comment!

R0flc0pter1000

Aaaaaaaaaand subbed :D

Awesome show !

papergirlthoughts

can you please start working in celsius... i swear no one understand fahrenheit!

AndrewDeLong

@papergirlthoughts Fahrenheit is easy to understand.

32° = Freezing (water)

212° = Boiling (water)

72° = Acceptable room temperature

40° = a bit chilly but livable

90° = hot enough to swim (and a right angle)

120° = more reason to swim or, if humid out, a reason to buy a kick ass AC unit

0° = Cold for most people, but fun for me

Anything <0° = holy shit stay inside and crank up the fire

Fahrenheit is easy to understand, when you live it every day.

diane8cupcake

I really thought this was about the Tardis.

IAmDanMan1

Hank: "Picture, in your mind, the toughest animal on Earth."

Me: "DUN DUN DUN DUN! HONEY BADGER!!"

rethinkOURreality

Whoa, that was really cool! Also going off what @mastergingernumber1 said, do tardigrades have any biological/evolutionary connection to any other species on Earth? If not, then that theory's possible.

ReallyNotAwesome

Looked at water bears in sixth grade. I had no idea they were so tough!

Cr1byn

Great show! But still using Fahrenheit?... come on America, catch up

Exayevie

2:25 is the best thing I have ever heard. Life=MADE

jordanleigh713

I want a moss piglet!

Jakathera

Thumbs up if you totally took a screen cap of the Tardegrade and now am using it as your desktop background! *crickets* ... ... Well I am! And I'm proud of it! XD

ayyKatx

toughest animal on earth: the honey badger.

Dickified

Not all suck moss, there are some carniverous species that supposidly pounce upon bacteria! And run after them "like the Tyranosaurus Rex"

PYates77

Thank you Extreme Animals (loved that show so much when I was little)! I knew the answer to this question! :D

TheButtonFairy

I got obsessed with tardigrades back when I was 9 or 10. None of my friends knew what they were, and when I explained they didn't understand how awesome they were. I was simply amazed by them. And now I hear everyone online talking about them and such and finally I can discuss their incredible abilities with everyone!

Dragonwing16

I have a friend who studies these creatures endlessly

Calgarylames

I still think a Honey Badger is tougher...

marc46o

Wait! ... Yes, my mind was blown, thanks Hank.

chemexplosions

Archea! One of the more interesting forms of prokaryote!

Noobsquadz

The claims in this video are not based on scientific fact, they are exaggerated for entertainment value.

Some Tardigrades, subject to extremes of environment in the laboratory will survive, but will shortly after die. They are non invincible and do not have super powers or brains.

Summer5able09

Cuteness and badassery over load!!!!!!!!!!

beatlemaniac729

How does one kill a tardigrade...?

Rizzler97

Did anyone else think of the Honey Badger?

TheAerieShow

Well Tardigrades in space reminded me of Pigs in space

YaraxH

If they decide to team up with the honey badger, the human race is screwed.

guylfe

Dun Dun Dun Dun - TARDIGRADES!

By the way - am I the only one who, from looking at the title, thought it would be a Dr Who post?

GONEmypurpleflapjack

So the thirteenth doctor will only eat moss?

RattusCorvus

I want some as pets. They are cute and interesting and they survive almost everything, so maybe even me.

matthewgilpincom

when he said toughest animal I instantly thought: HONEY BADGERS!!!!

crazywriterchic

is it supposed to be multicolored

guitar5454

this is so awesome

randomish211

my favorite part of this video were the cartoon tardigrades in the background

dmjbents

Honey badger

TheWhoafish

anyone else remember this on "Most Extreme" on animal planet??

Punkrockpixie95

Can we call them Space Honey badgers? That would be a fitting title, cute little buggers.

companymen42

TARDIS!!!!!

kaak1212

could someone give me a source to this information?

icosaaa

So what happens if we drop a couple off in mars?

LuckyLoveLovesYou

frrikkknnnn boombasstiik man !

LuckyLoveLovesYou

frrikkknnnn boombasstiik man !

midnightnoms

DUN DUN DUN DUN TARDIGRADE!

Earthquaker100

"Tardigrades in space" .... PIGS IN SPACE

gladrial89

I now have a new favorite animal, and no one will believe it exists. >:D Pure awesome.

PatientxWhatsername

@gladrial89 We played the name game (Name, favorite something, favorite something) in my 11th grade English class, and one of the categories was favorite animal. I said Tardigrades and NO ONE had heard of them xD I felt pretty awesome.

Phlyrox

send some to mars. may be in a million years some may evolve into something.

MythologicalGames

I have a lab microscope... Where can I find these creatures... They don't look that small...

dolphin64575

@MythologicalGames Moss, apparently.

themanwhocan2kx

tardigrade dont give a f**K!

jiffrey32

that was actually really cool

Palitato

I was actually thinking of Water Bears. xD I remembered seeing a show on Animal Planet that listed them as the Most Extreme Survivor. ^_^

WheezyWrimoFighteria

TARDIS.

SCCIIIEEENNNCEEE WIIIIIIIIINNNNN!!!!

fiveactmusic

Who would dislike this?

synchrogirl978

I imagined a honeybadger in a volcano...

lostndrownd

this is so awesome, im so glad i was introduced to these nutty little guys!

KittehKatFTW

I was thinking of cockroaches in the sun... Tardigrades pwn cockroaches.

SonatinaVirtuoso

So, the Hanklerstache is back, I see. On an unrelated note, score one for the Whovians!! :D

thegreatcreator9

seeding life althogh a very stretched idea is likely thanks to these little honeybadger microbe bears of awsome

GavraCadavra

I want a pet Tardigrade

doodlehh

Ooh! I like the bear graphic. You know what I'm talking about; the one with the spinning rim?

OBOE511

Wow. Just...Wow.

IseultAfire

TARDIGRADES IN SPACE. Score for the Whovians. xD

RE7SOAK

This is a science show, why do you use imperial?!

devonriley415

oh damn. im amazed by your little show man, soooooo much good brain nom.

speedster258

Tardigrades don't give a shit!

MochiCreeper

lol, there was a Tardis. Dr. Who referance :D

TheNewRedHoodie

"panspermia, a word that i'm not gonna make a joke about"

mastergingernumber1

If these little creatures are as amazing as you say, is it possible that they were actually from another planet and came here? You did say that they can withstand pressures at a level that would be pointless on this earth, so is it possible that they developed that feature on another planet and then made their way here? Just thinking out loud.

leonid1995

@mastergingernumber1 Watch the rest of the video. ^^

moderndancerr

hank- my teacher showed this to our biology class. I guess that means that youre just that awesome.

Msmusicvideomaniac

i want a pet tardigrade

1994punk

I love these little bastards :D

WeirdBlueOne

I never thought I would be jealous of a small little creature that lives on moss. But I am. Because it has been to space, and can survive in space.

oiyx10

absolutly love tardigrades

frozenheat90

I LOVE TARDIGRADES!!!!!

NicksPolitics

they could end up losing whatever "memory" they have (if any)

reidrules45

I love Doctor Who!

You cn tell by my channel!

Do you like Doctor Who?

iHASanIDEA

Tardigrades, the sperm of space life.

centophobic

the tardigrades remind me of the human centipede....

hettyLOL

'we keep shoving these little tardigrades up into'- *le buffer*

WHERE!

choisant

so that's what they're called in English! In norwegian we call them tøffeldyr, or slipper animals. Idk why, but it sounds like something that would suck on moss.

ifthisisthelife

@choisant haha,i just thought it was funny that the german word was also pantoffeltierchen(slipper animal)

also: tardigrades and our slipper animals are not the same: these little guys are apperently calld Bjørnedyr in norwegian.

DFTBA :)

OMGChicks1

oh by the way, I pictured a honey badger in space, and then he went crazy from the UV rays and started singing show tunes. yeah it was hilarious.

OMGChicks1

it froze at 2:31, i suggest you try that.

LeeshajD

I pictured a honey badger in a vat of cold, congealed custard :S

Rixtm27

I do expect a song about tardigrades soon :D

TheGoldImperium

I pictured a lion on mars (He died).

lorenor89

@TheGoldImperium

I named him carl..

poor carl....

rockym93

Spare a thought for the poor Tardigrades on board the failed Russian Phobos-Grunt probe, which is about to re-enter the atmosphere and burn up into a four-thousand kilometre long streak of flaming debris...

Oh, who are we kidding, they'll probably be fine.

lolmymag

how much do you think it would take to get moss growing on mars?

Anthonyk312

Panspermia just wouldn't work between solar systems. Something like 2 pieces of matter from another star system have entered our solar system from the time of its creation. The chances of one of them containing life is so much smaller than life simply evolving on its own.

TTomni

@Anthonyk312 I had the same thought when I watched the video. And I'd like to ask is panspermia considering life coming from a different solar system or just hopping through planets in ours.

stoffthegreat

i really really like this show! great idea hank!

zoemonkim

yaaaay updated on my birthday! also hank tardigrades r like microscopic..... you kinda forgot to mention that

Helveticabun

My guess was either a honey badger in a vat of some sort of acid, or a water bear in space. I love how much I watch Animal Planet since I was a kid. Thanks Most X-Treme!!!

ElijiahT

"...interested in proving the panspermia hypothesis"

????

That's not how science works.

lolmymag

@ElijiahT wtf really? YOUR MOM ISN'T HOW SCIENCE WORKS

imamadmad1

Hehe TARDIS. Maybe the tardigrades are from Gallifrey :P

christybrinkly24

Oh my god, they are so cute! :D

boookworm10

i enjoy this.

dmelc9

@starchington That would have been cool also.

dmelc9

The thumbnail did look like dr.who.

Still a cool video.

smeegie181

they should send tardigrades to mars

smeegie181

I thought of a whale in a dessert : (

icaughtthesnitch

You are the Best teacher, Mr. Green.

eearthemayge29

I feel really awesome because I tried to picture an extremophile.

granted, it was on a moon of Jupiter...but...extremophile.

Thank you Astrobiology classes. :)

izorizo

I keep reading "Tardigrade" as "TARDISgrade" and keep having to correct myself.

meeroar

Ok well then i hypothesize that Tardigrades are aliens. yep... A-LEE-ENS

LockPopAmy

so cool:o

shneakay18

SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE. I WANNA GO TO SPACE.

FilledCircle

I thought of a Water Bear in a vacuum.... I feel smart ;D

pete275

how much is 300 degrees farenheight? I though this was about science.

pigscanfly522

I was picturing a honey badger being attacked by honey badgers (:

WelllWhatCanISay

That is mind-boggling stuff right there.

brahitsemily

No honey badger?

Unanimous97

Y U NO MY SCIENCE TEACHER?!

MissJuniorMinty

this made me very happy.

natzau

Hey Hank. I'm loving the show. Is it at all possible to provide metric measurements? Sure, I can just google it but it would be nicer to not have to do that. :)

Sara595

i want a stuffed cartoon tardigrade, the little flash thing is so cute, do are the real tardigrade, but i want something a little bigger

yellowjellotime

This made me consider the other implications of panspermia... what if life on Earth is not originally from Earth? Instead of tardigrades from Earth reaching other planets, wouldn't it be just as likely that long ago a meteor carrying tardigrades crashed into Earth and became the origin of all life on Earth? Basically... there is a possibility that all earthly organisms descended from aliens.

animeangela227

lol, yea. i was thinking about hiney badgers!

FoilFaerie

I was picturing a honeybadger let loose in a zoo full of people.

totototocaca

So tardigrades are little honey badgers?

tangerinevivid

i freakin love tardigrades!! i took an invertebrate field course this past summer and we found some. most exciting day of my life! haha

MsJizzyjazzy

You got this from QI didn't you?

mizukori250

Tardigrades dont give a damn

asdfqwerzxcv6

I pictured a honey badger in space... so close! (only the honey badger was killed of course :( )

Vergast

for a science show you use an awful lot of imperical mesurments instead of ya know....ones used in science...

kiddooo10

Hank, thank you for these videos. As weird as it sounds, the conversations that we have about what you've been talking about in these videos has basically saved my relationship with my dad.

TRDPaul

how did tardigrades evolve then?

Miers27

@TRDPaul WITH SCIENCE

stormfet

I thought of a honey badger too...

DarianLewis

I'm glad i wasn't the only only to think of the honey badger ....... i feel much less stupid now

Fudgadelical

I thought of a dinosaur and now feel like an idiot.

MapiesMaster

DUN DUN DUN TARDIGRADE!

Lillieberry

I'm pretty sure the world's toughest animal is the honey badger

IlnousaimeleMonsieur

Puppy-sized Tardigrades? Yes, please.

ChristopherWachtler

I thought of the Honey Badger.. o.o

TheDancinflamingo

i guessed honey badger was the toughest animal on earth

clochettestarz

Won a point at a pubquizz last night thanks to the word "panspermia" and mainly thanks to you!

spastisity

Which came first: the Moss or the Tardigrade?

OddmentTweak

which isn't clever until they shortened it to...TARDIS......BOOYA.

plushalligator

if they didnt name it the tardigrade on purpose, that is the most coincendental name in history. dr who nerds who name important stuff FTW!!!

proud2bAZN234

i thought this video was about a new animal that was similar to the tardis x(

odetomidgetcheese

Awwwwwwww so cute! New favourite animal!!

CeeTheBrave

Awwh, I found a water bear once. In filtered sewage water.

4TheLoveofLauren

if panspermia hfkldsajsa whatev. is true that means there could be some seriously resilient aliens on different planets AND THEY CAN COME AND KILL US! well thats scary

penguinz002

It's Otto! From search for wondla!

purplejoj

He didn't say, "The toughest animal on EARTH", at first, so I was thinking of a Dalek.

cablecar10

Pretty damn cute.

MetricCaboose1

I could have sworn I saw the word TARDIS somewhere?!

ThatMadHatterKat

@MetricCaboose1 TARDIS= Abbreviation for Tardigrades in Space!

specialfae1989

Why do we not send some tadigrades to Mars with the next rover?

onthatthought

MOSSSSS PIGLETS IN SPAAACEE!

GirlWhoLikes2Comment

Those animations are so cute!

lotrwalrus

Like Spore?

mafuyashi

no itsn not the most inhospitible environment is the centrwe of the sun and the most durable creature is a woman or posibly her cancer that covers a large pecent of the earths mass and can not be killed all at once.

im not kidding look it up.

GONEmypurpleflapjack

@mafuyashi Henrietta Lacks?

ALPisinfactaPenName

I'll admit that I clicked this because the thumbnail said TARDIS...

But now I'm addicted. :D

GettinArtsy

Tardigrades in Space needs to be a movie.

Now.

OnMyWayToBelieving

Tardigrades are quite disturbing when you see their faces.

yellowpenguin123

i want a pet tardigrade awh

DestroyDemonocracy

What I want to know is, when they send these tardigrades out into space... how do they find them again? Space is kinda big...

inkblackRose

did anyone else look at this and think, wait, tardises? i want a tardis!

Ellie7142

Well thats...kind of really awesome.

TotallyObsessed98

how big did you say these Tardigrades were?

JackSkellingFrost

I love Archaebacteria.

brblol90

i really really really like this channel. hank you are amazing and one of my favorite youtubers ever, as well with your brother DFTBA

HonorDVBLouise

I WANNA BE A TARDIGRADE! :D

rainbowsandonions

SCISHOW is now my favorite youtube channel <3

HungryHippos99

Favourite scishow to date, nice job. Coincidently, the tardigrade? My favourite organism to date.

CatfishAlwaysDrink

you make convincing arguement, but honey badger don't give a crap.

ThingMaBobJimmy

funnily enough, I was thinking about an octopus in space. I have a strange mind. This is also the reason that I currently have a massive bump on the back of my head, because it made me fall off my chair, giggling my immature little head off.

Zero683

Dr. whooooooooooooooooo

Ditsch42

They really named it Tardis? They're all nerds after all :D Awesome!

danininja94

Honey Badgers do care.

The tardigrade was cute!

hicciusdoccius

I suddenly now desire a large Tardigrade plushie, like the adorable little tardigrades in the background.

JadeRhianna

i actually thought this was going to be about a tardis..

DasNoehrchen

'and then they brought the tardigrades back to earth and they were like: "what's up?"'

n'awwwwww

DrQuijano

So it turns out that tardigrades are the most evolved species after all...

snakesmyle

I don't know if you read all the comments, but I have a question! Have scientists tested the ability of tardigrades to survive plummeting through the atmosphere? From what I've heard, meteorites and stuff tend to burn up when they enter our atmosphere (due to friction?). How does our atmosphere compare to the atmospheres of other planets, and does that information affect the panspermia hypothesis?

alcoholicshoe

@snakesmyle temperatures as cold as -273 degrees celsius, and as warm as 151 degrees celsius

Artifying

I love that I already knew about them. -3 Nerdy and proud.

alcoholicshoe

@Artifying me too!

trinitysong08

I want my patronus to be a tardigrade.

FreakyBelgianChick

I have a new favorite animal! OMGSOCUTE!

Dummweltschutz

There's a german artist who made a friggin awesome song about extremophiles, it's called "Ride the Comet" by Ayreon :D /watch?v=fS1OryN8UHk

hdhoven2983

1:17-1:25- I want to see that as a pillow pet/squishable! After all if they have parasites as pillows why not thermophile throw pillows?

loopylion586

toughest animal/environment that i thought of: T-rex in ice-age era Alaska.... made me laugh.

TheJenniferOlive

Want to learn more about extremophiles watch Planet Earth, its awesome and the British man voice is addictive. Thank you for being so awesome Hank. DFTBA

samanthalee36

@krootkc Hmm, I still think they'd be adorable pets.

Hawkify13

Best one ever!

ouzelindisguise

Best SciShow yet? Yes!

Beeru

One of my university professors works with tardigrades, and whenever he's transporting them across borders and asked if he's carrying any living animal with him, he always answers with "umm, well, they could be dead, or alive... it depends".

WoWTirrus

So cool!!

raph0renzoo

I bet the person or people who made up the name "Tardigrade" watch and love Doctor Who.

itsciwi

Easily the most mind blowing episode of SciShow.

Thanks Hank!

enrybono

you are talking science, use fucking kelvin degrees!

itsciwi

@enrybono

I agree, use Kelvin (or also give Celsius as well ass Fahrenheit), but when talking about kelvin, you dont say degrees.

enrybono

@itsciwi yup my bad