[HN Gopher] Tardigrades walk like insects 500k times their size ___________________________________________________________________ Tardigrades walk like insects 500k times their size Author : _Microft Score : 34 points Date : 2021-12-28 20:27 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com) (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com) | sebow wrote: | 1024core wrote: | > "Other times, they'd see something they like and run towards | it." | | Can tardigrades really "see" in the traditional sense? Can they | make out shapes, etc.? Do they have photo receptors plugged into | the brain? | dang wrote: | Recent and related: | | _Tardigrades Walk_ - | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28380188 - Sept 2021 (29 | comments) | | _Entanglement between superconducting qubits and a tardigrade_ - | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29580686 - Dec 2021 (111 | comments) | hetspookjee wrote: | Thank you for linking those threads as the latter one was a | thrill to read: both the thread as the paper. | tiahura wrote: | "The team was surprised to note that the water bears did not have | distinct gaits for each speed, like horses as they transition | from a walk to a gallop. Rather, their locomotion closely | resembled that of insects and arthropods, scurrying along faster | and faster with no change to the basic step pattern." | | So they expected them to walk like horses and not insects? That | seems odd. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-12-28 23:00 UTC)