What Would It Take to Wipe Out All Life on Earth?
Discover Magazine - Mon 17 Jul 17The first exoplanet was spotted in 1988. Since then more than 3,000 planets have been found outside our solar system, and it’s thought that around 20 percent of Sun-like stars have an Earth-like ...
We Worked Out What It Would Take to Wipe Out All Life on a Planet—and It’s Good News for Alien Hunters, SingularityHub - Mon 17 Jul 17Water bears will survive the end of the world as we know it
ScienceNews - Fri 14 Jul 17Water bears have a till-death-do-us-part pact with the sun, study suggests.
Utterly unkillable tardigrades will live to see our Sun die
New Atlas - Fri 14 Jul 17In about 5 billion years' time, our Sun will use up its reserves of hydrogen and begin to cool down and expand, cooking the Earth in a miasma of heat and radiation. Given our current ...
Tardigrades: The last survivors on Earth
Phys.org - Fri 14 Jul 17The world's most indestructible species, the tardigrade, an eight-legged micro-animal, also known as the water bear, will survive until the Sun dies, according to a new Oxford University collaboration.
Indestructible tardigrades will live until the dying Sun boils Earth’s oceans
Cosmos Magazine - Fri 14 Jul 17A new analysis of cosmic cataclysms suggests that tardigrades may live another 5 billion years, even if humans and other animals aren’t so lucky.
Tardigrades could probably survive the otherwise complete annihilation of life on Earth
Popular Science - Fri 14 Jul 17Animals Water bear don't care. Water bear don't care. Meet our planet's future overlords.
This eight-legged creature could be Earth's sole survivor -- and help search for aliens
FOXNews - Fri 14 Jul 17Cockroaches can survive a nuclear winter, but the "water bear" could outlive everything — at least until the Sun dies.
Meet the hideous creature that will live to the end of the world
USA today - Fri 14 Jul 17Tardigrades — the world's most indestructible species — will survive until the sun dies, according to a study released Friday.        
World's most indestructible creature - the tardigrade - will be alive on Earth until Sun diesÂ
Telegraph.co.uk Science - Fri 14 Jul 17 These 'Indestructible' Animals Would Survive a Planet-Wide Apocalypse, National Geographic - Fri 14 Jul 178-Legged Extremophile Freaks Will Outlive Humanity (& Maybe the Sun)
SPACE.com - Fri 14 Jul 17The eight-legged micro-animal called a tardigrade could survive nearly all the way until the death of the sun, a new study suggests — long after humans are history.
8-Legged Extremophile Freaks Will Outlive Humanity (& Maybe the Sun), Livescience - Fri 14 Jul 17Tardigrades will be the last survivors on Earth
Daily Mail - Fri 14 Jul 17Researchers from the University of Oxford found that tardigrades will exist for at least ten billion years and could live through an asteroid strike or the impact of a close-by exploding star. ...
Water bears may be the last species alive when the sun dies
Engadget - Fri 14 Jul 17We often talk about whether human beings can survive a cataclysmic space event, such as a large asteroid hitting the Earth. But even if we're wiped out, other life will go on. ...
This tiny creature can survive the risk of extinction posed from all known major astrophysical catastrophes, and suggests what one potential form of extraterrestrial life might look like.
Discovery News - Fri 14 Jul 17Credit: Science Picture Co.After a massive asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, an estimated three-quarters of all plant and animal species went extinct. While ...
The last survivors on Earth
Watts Up With That? - Sun 16 Jul 17From Eurekalert Public Release: 14-Jul-2017 University of Oxford The world’s most indestructible species, the tardigrade, an eight-legged micro-animal, also known as the water bear, will ...
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Tardigrades will be the last surviving creatures on earth after the sun dies
Inhabitat - Fri 14 Jul 17In the event that Earth is struck by an asteroid, the sun goes supernova or the planet is soaked in gamma ray bursts in an extreme energetic explosion, the last surviving creatures won't be ...