🐾The tiny creatures called tardigrades (microscopic "water bears") can endure freezing, extreme heat, and even the intense radiation and vacuum in space; and they are said to have remained *unchanged* for ~600 million years!

Tardigrades are like nature’s ultimate survivalists wrapped in a cuddly exoskeleton. Here’s a list of their most outstanding traits, each one a testament to the design features manifest in creation:

🧬 Top Mind-Bending Facts About Tardigrades

🌌 1. They have Survived Outer Space

• In 2007, tardigrades were blasted into orbit and exposed to the rigours of space, cosmic radiation, and freezing temperatures. Many survived and reproduced after returning to earth!

🔥❄️ 2. They Endure Extreme Temperatures

• Tardigrades can survive from −272°C (just above absolute zero) to over 150°C. That’s colder than deep space and hotter than boiling water.

🧟 3. They Enter Cryptobiosis—A Zombie-Like State

• When conditions get tough, they curl into a dry husk called a “tun,” suspending metabolism almost completely. In this state, they can survive decades without food or water.

🦠 4. They’ve Been Around for 600 Million Years

• Tardigrades are said to predate dinosaurs by hundreds of millions of years. They’ve weathered all the mass extinction events scientists say have wiped out multitudes of species.

🧪 5. They’re Radiation-Resistant

• These tiny creatures can withstand radiation doses hundreds of times higher than levels that would kill a human.

🧭 6. They Live Practically Everywhere

• From Himalayan peaks to deep-sea trenches, Antarctic ice to tropical rainforests, tardigrades thrive in moss, lichen, soil, and even hot springs.

🧠 7. Their Bodies Are Mostly “Head”

• They don’t have the middle body segments typical of other creatures. Their entire body is essentially a walking head, anatomically speaking.

🐾 8. They Walk Like Bears

• Their lumbering gait and clawed feet resemble a bear’s walk—hence their nickname “water bear.”

🧫 9. They’re Transparent and Tiny

• Most are a fraction of a millimetre long—just visible to the naked eye—and many are translucent, making them hard to spot without a microscope.

🧃 10. They Feed by Piercing Cells

• Tardigrades use dagger-like mouthparts to pierce plant cells, algae, or even other tardigrades, then suck out the contents like microscopic vampires.

Mainstream evolutionary narratives lean heavily on the concept of incremental changes across immense spans of geologic time. But the tardigrade defies this theory in spades! They retained key anatomical traits for over half a billion years. This takes palaeontologists back in time to what they call the Ediacaran Period (541–635 million years ago), which is said to have marked the dawn of complex multicellular life. But are tardigrades really just “multicellular life”? 

With all the mature characteristics that tardigrades manifest, to this day, are they not advanced with the so-called “evolutionary traits”? Where did these come from? Yet why are they “unchanged” in the face of the “evidence” that is touted to support evolutionary theory? Additionally, why are there no transitional forms that give rise to their incredible abilities? The answer given by evolutionists is most often along the lines of ‘fossilization is a rare event and the fossil record cannot be expected to contain a complete, uninterrupted sequence of evolution.’

The oft-cited phrase ‘cannot be expected’—when used to explain missing transitional fossils—implicitly acknowledges the incompleteness of the fossil record. If this foundational record is riddled with significant gaps, what other empirical pillars uphold the evolutionary framework? — (See the full article Mutations: Are They "Raw Materials" for Evolution?)