Tardigrades, known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of water-dwelling eight-legged segmented micro-animals. They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who called them little water bears.The internet’s favorite microscopic creature, the tardigrade, could one day save your life. It is virtually impossible to kill a tardigrade.

You can freeze it, boil it, crush it, zap it with radiation, and deprive it of food and water—for years! —and it will wiggle back to life.World’s most indestructible creature tardigrade can survive 30 years without food – half its lifetime … will continue to thrive for around 10 billion years, come hell or high water, tardigrades that were frozen solid for 30 years have been brought back to life. The water bear can put itself into a kind of sleep mode in order to survive tardigrades are able to survive a mere ten years.

2.A female ferret will die if she goes a year without sex.

When you leave their life, they can go into a deep mourning period and even die of loneliness. Dying from a lack of sex is an actual thing. Female ferrets reach sexual maturity at 4-6 months of age. Once they go into heat, they stay that way indefinitely until they breed. Over time, prolonged high doses of estrogen lead to aplastic anemia — a serious condition that can lead to death. Luckily, a veterinarian can help bring a ferret out of heat if breeding doesn’t happen.