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I read somewhere that they can absorb DNA from foreign sources (other animals, etc) into their cells when they rehydrate, leading to an accelerated rate of evol
by embwbam 11y ago
I read somewhere that they can absorb DNA from foreign sources (other animals, etc) into their cells when they rehydrate, leading to an accelerated rate of evolution.
- pajaroide 11y agoHere's an article about that: http://phys.org/news/2015-11-huge-chunk-tardigrade-genome-foreign.html http://phys.org/news/2015-11-huge-chunk-tardigrade-genome-fo...