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 Here is tardigrade commonly known as water-bear or moss piglets , an organism which can survive in extreme conditions ranging from top mountain to deep ocean. It is first known organism which can survive in space. The sample is taken from village Bhauri, Madhya Pradesh (India). I tried a lot to find it on moss and  dust as well as water. But I found it on lichens which were present on tree  of
 
 Acacia
 
 
 acacia
 
 .  The tardigrade has 4 pair of legs with each having 4 claws.  This organism follows two processes: anhydrobiosis and cryobiosis.


 
 Protocol :
 


 I simply  took the lichens in a petri-plate  containing water  and put it for 1-2 hours. Now I filtered it. I took 2-4 drops of that liquid and put under foldscope slide. I observed it in foldscope.

Tardigrade an extremophile

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