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Close up of a Water Bear |
J.A.E. Goeze (Pastor at St. Blasii, Quedlinburg, Germany), 1773
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Photo by Eny Yusnizar
"The original dancing bear was taller and thinner than the chubby little bear of today, but became immediately popular among the children of Bonn."
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History, It's All In the Name
- 1773 Johann August Ephraim Goeze discovered and coined the term kleiner Wasserbär meaning "little water bear."
- 1777 Lazzaro Spallanzani named it Tardigrada meaning "slow stepper."
- 1922 Hans Reigal created the gummi bear, also known as Tanzbär meaning "dancing bear."
Water Bears
- They have eight legs!
- Live everywhere:
- In the high canopy of trees, living in moss and lichen
- Tallest mountain tops
- Deepest parts of the ocean
- Have been launched into space and survived.
- Can survive extreme conditions such as:
- temperatures as low as -200 °C (-328 °F) and as high as 151 °C (304 °F)
- high pressure (up to 6x the pressure of the deepest part of the ocean)
- lack of oxygen
- levels of X-ray radiation 1000x the lethal human dose
- lack of water
- Do not have a respiratory or circulatory system.
- In their own Animalia phylum, Tardigrada.
- Survive extreme conditions through cryptobiosis also known as a tun.
- Biggest adults reach a body length of 1.5 millimeters.
- Claws at the end of each leg.
Gummy Bears
- They only have four legs but just maybe someday they'll have eight.
- Also can be found everywhere there's a sweet tooth such as:
- taking a bag of gummies with me while tree climbing
- yummy summit gummy bear treat to celebrate
- I'm sure somewhere there is a lonely gummy bear laying at the bottom of the ocean.
- It is possible an astronaut has packed these yummy companions on their journey.
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Photo by Jera Sky |
- Can survive extreme conditions such as:
- lack of water, oxygen, high pressure, and freezing temperatures.
- Did not survive Johanne's "obliteration" aka "torture" methods. It took approximately one minute in -196 °C or 385 °F to shatter an unknown, yellow gummy bear.
- It takes approximately 5 minutes in a microwave to melt a gummy bear.
- Highest predation by human consumption.
- Also do not have a respiratory or circulatory system.
- Are related to another famous candy, gummy worms.
- Often averaging the size of a quarter, the largest gummy bear is a whopping five pounds!
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