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The Most Interesting Man in the World
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This article is about the Dos Equis advertisement. For the Family Guy episode, see The Most Interesting Man in the World (Family Guy).
The Most Interesting Man in The World
Goldsmith played the Most Interesting Man in the World from 2006 to 2016
First appearance
2006
Portrayed by
Jonathan Goldsmith (2006–2016)
Claudio Marangone (young)[1]
Augustin Legrand (2016–present)
Company
Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery
Information
Aliases
The World's Most Interesting Man
Gender
Male
The Most Interesting Man in the World is an advertising campaign for the Dos Equis brand of beer. The ads feature "the world's most interesting man," a bearded, debonair gentleman, with voiceovers that are intended to be both humorous and outrageous. The advertisements first began appearing in the United States in 2006 and have since then become a popular Internet meme.
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1 History
2 Advertisements
3 Sales strategy and results
4 In popular culture
5 See also
6 References
History[edit]
Augustin Legrand replaced Goldsmith in 2016
The advertisements first began appearing in the United States in 2006, with The Most Interesting Man in the World portrayed by American actor Jonathan Goldsmith,[2] and Frontline narrator Will Lyman providing voiceovers. They were produced by the marketing firm Euro RSCG (now Havas Worldwide) for Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery.[3]
Goldsmith landed the Dos Equis gig by auditioning for the role. Auditioners were given the ending line "...and that's how I arm wrestled Fidel Castro" and asked to improvise. Goldsmith began his audition by removing one sock and then improvised for 30 minutes before reaching the concluding line.[4] The character was inspired by his deceased sailing partner and friend Fernando Lamas.[5]
In March 2016, Dos Equis announced Goldsmith's retirement from the role, with a commercial sending him on a one-way journey to Mars amid much acclaim, and the narration: "His only regret is not knowing what regret feels like".[6] In September, they introduced French actor Augustin Legrand as Goldsmith's replacement.[7]
Advertisements[edit]
The Goldsmith advertisements feature an older bearded, debonair gentleman. They also feature a montage (mostly in black and white) of daring exploits involving "the most interesting man" when he was younger, in which the character is played by actor Claudio Marangone.[8]
The precise settings are never revealed, but he performs feats such as freeing an angry bear from a painful-looking bear trap, shooting a pool trick shot before an audience (by shooting the cue ball out of the mouth of a man lying on the pool table), catching a marlin while cavorting in a Hemingway-esque scene with a beautiful young woman, winning an arm-wrestling match in a South American setting, surfing a killer wave, and bench pressing two young women, each seated in a chair, in a casino setting. The voiceovers themselves are intended to be both humorous and outrageous, and include humorous undertones such as his giving his own father "the talk", experiencing an awkward moment just to know how it felt, and finding the Fountain of Youth but not drinking from it, "because he wasn't thirsty". Other feats are more centered on his physical abilities and personality. These include his small talk changing foreign policies, parallel-parking a train, and slamming a revolving door.
At the end of the advertisement, the most interesting man, usually shown sitting in a night club or other social setting surrounded by several beautiful young women, says, "I don't always drink beer. But when I do, I prefer Dos Equis." Each commercial ends with him stating the signature sign-off: "Stay thirsty, my friends."[9]
There are secondary advertisements that are similar to the final part of the original advertisements. They feature the man sitting in a social setting, surrounded by beautiful young women, conveying a short opinion to the viewer on certain subjects, such as bar nuts, the two-party system, self-defense, trophy wives, and "bromance". He then finishes the advertisement by holding a Dos Equis beer and saying, "Stay thirsty, my friends."
The advertisements featuring Legrand end with a slightly different sign-off: "Stay thirsty, mis amigos" (Spanish for "my friends").
Sales strategy and results[edit]
The agency's rationale for the brand strategy was defined as: "He is a man rich in stories and experiences, much the way the audience hopes to be in the future. Rather than an embodiment of the brand, The Most Interesting Man is a voluntary brand spokesperson: he and Dos Equis share a point of view on life that it should be lived interestingly."[10] According to the company, U.S. sales increased each year between 2006–2010[11] and tripled in Canada in 2008,[12] although exact figures were not provided. Sales of Dos Equis are said to have increased by 22% at a time when sale of other imported beer fell 4% in the U.S.[12]
Goldsmith said in an interview that he realized how successful the campaign had been when a man came up to him in a restaurant, telling Goldsmith that the man had asked his young son what he wanted to be when he grew up, and the son replied: "I want to be The Most Interesting Man In The World."[13]
In popular culture[edit]
The Most Interesting Man in the World has become an Internet meme, with a picture of The Most Interesting Man accompanying the phrasal template "I don't always [X], but when I do, I [Y]".[14][15][16]
On the September 22, 2012 airing of Saturday Night Live, guest host Joseph Gordon-Levitt played the unimpressive son of The Most Interesting Man in the World in a pair of sketches, with Jason Sudeikis appearing as his father in the second.[17][18]
See also[edit]
Chuck Norris facts
Bill Brasky
References[edit]
Jump up ^ E.J. Schultz (March 5, 2012). "The Story Behind Dos Equis' Most Interesting Man in the World - Behind The Work - Advertising Age". adage.com. Advertising Age. Retrieved June 25, 2015.
Jump up ^ "The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: All Men Are Liars". smh.com.au. Retrieved June 25, 2015.
Jump up ^ Helliesen, Gunnar (04/7/2010). "The most interesting ad in the world". Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Jump up ^ Jack Busch (2011-08-29). "An Interview with Jonathan Goldsmith, The Actor Behind The Most Interesting Man in the World". www.primermagazine.com.
Jump up ^ "The Most Interesting Man in the World - Fox News Video - Fox News". Fox News. 2010-09-27.
Jump up ^ Wang, Yanan (10 March 2016). "The 'Most Interesting Man in the World' just lost his job". Washington Post. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
Jump up ^ "Dos Equis introduces its new 'Most Interesting Man'".
Jump up ^ "On the Set With The Most Interesting Man in the World". adage.com. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
Jump up ^ "秘密のチャットレディバイト". staythirstymyfriends.com. Archived from the original on July 7, 2015. Retrieved June 25, 2015.
Jump up ^ Francis Pruett. "The Most Interesting Beer Campaign in The World?". The Witty Barman Guide. Retrieved 2010-10-15.
Jump up ^ Austin Carr (2010-07-26). "Why The Most Interesting Man in the World Moves More Units Than Old Spice Guy". Fastcompany.com. Retrieved 2010-08-03.
^ Jump up to: a b Kate Lunau (2009-08-13). "King of beer sales, amigo". Maclean's. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
Jump up ^ WHATUNEEDTV (2010-10-11). "Jonathan Goldsmith Dos Equis: "The Most Interesting Man" at the 2009 World Music Awards". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2011-12-24.
Jump up ^ Kathleen Strecker (2012-05-17). "Share ALL the memes! - Coast Weekend: Coastal Life". Coast Weekend. Retrieved 2012-07-25.
Jump up ^ "Campus-themed Internet memes go viral –". Usatoday.com. 2012-02-16. Retrieved 2012-07-25.
Jump up ^ Kaiser, Johanna (2012-04-13). "Massachusetts students use memes to joke about high school - Beverly - Your Town". Boston.com. Retrieved 2012-07-25.
Jump up ^ "Watch Saturday Night Live: Tres Equis I Online / Hulu" (adobe flash). 2012-09-22. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
Jump up ^ "Watch Saturday Night Live: Tres Equis II Online / Hulu" (adobe flash). 2012-09-22. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
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Tardigrade
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For members of the suborder sometimes designated Tardigrada, see Sloth.
"Moss piglets" redirects here. For the South Park episode, see Moss Piglets (South Park).
Tardigrades
Temporal range: Cambrian–Recent[1]
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Milnesium tardigradum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
(unranked): Tactopoda
Phylum: Tardigrada
Spallanzani, 1777
Classes
Eutardigrada
Heterotardigrada
Mesotardigrada
Tardigrades (/ˈtɑːrdɪˌɡreɪd/; also known colloquially as water bears, space bears, or moss piglets)[2][3][4][5] are water-dwelling, eight-legged, segmented micro-animals.[2][6] They were first discovered by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773. The name Tardigrada (meaning "slow stepper") was given three years later by the Italian biologist Lazzaro Spallanzani.[7] They have been found everywhere: from mountaintops to the deep sea and mud volcanoes;[8] from tropical rain forests to the Antarctic.[9]
Tardigrades are one of the most resilient animals known.[10][11] Individual species of tardigrade can survive extreme conditions that would be rapidly fatal to nearly all other known life forms, including complete global mass extinction events due to astrophysical events, such as supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, or large meteorite impacts.[10][11] Some tardigrades can withstand extremely cold temperatures down to 1 K (−458 °F; −272 °C) (close to absolute zero), while others can withstand extremely hot temperatures up to 420 K (300 °F; 150 °C)[12] for several minutes, pressures about six times greater than those found in the deepest ocean trenches, ionizing radiation at doses hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose for a human, and the vacuum of outer space.[13] They can go without food or water for more than 30 years, drying out to the point where they are 3% or less water, only to rehydrate, forage, and reproduce.[3][14][15][16] Tardigrades that live in harsh conditions undergo an annual process of cyclomorphosis, allowing for survival in sub-zero temperatures.[17]
They are not considered extremophilic because they are not adapted to exploit these conditions. This means that their chances of dying increase the longer they are exposed to the extreme environments,[7] whereas true extremophiles thrive in a physically or geochemically extreme environment that would harm most other organisms.[3][18][19]
Usually, tardigrades are about 0.5 mm (0.02 in) long when they are fully grown.[2] They are short and plump with four pairs of legs, each with four to eight claws also known as "disks".[2] The first three pairs of legs are directed downward along the sides, and are the primary means of locomotion, while the fourth pair is directed backward on the last segment of the trunk and is used primarily for grasping the substrate.[20] Tardigrades are prevalent in mosses and lichens and feed on plant cells, algae, and small invertebrates. When collected, they may be viewed under a very low-power microscope, making them accessible to students and amateur scientists.[21]
Tardigrades form the phylum Tardigrada, part of the superphylum Ecdysozoa. It is an ancient group, with fossils dating from 530 million years ago, in the Cambrian period.[22] About 1,150 species of tardigrades have been described.[23][24] Tardigrades can be found throughout the world, from the Himalayas[25] (6,000 m; 20,000 ft, above sea level) to the deep sea (−4,000 m; −13,000 ft) and from the polar regions to the equator.
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1 Description
2 Anatomy and morphology
3 Reproduction
4 Ecology and life history
5 Physiology
6 Taxonomy
7 Genomes and genome sequencing
8 Ecological importance
9 See also
10 References
11 External links
Description[edit]
Johann August Ephraim Goeze
Lazzaro Spallanzani
Johann August Ephraim Goeze originally named the tardigrade kleiner Wasserbär (Bärtierchen today), meaning "little water bear" in German. The name Tardigradum means "slow walker" and was given by Lazzaro Spallanzani in 1776.[26] The name "water bear" comes from the way they walk, reminiscent of a bear's gait. The biggest adults may reach a body length of 1.5 mm (0.059 in), the smallest below 0.1 mm. Newly hatched tardigrades may be smaller than 0.05 mm.
SEM image of Hypsibius dujardini
The most convenient place to find tardigrades is on lichens and mosses. Other environments are dunes, beaches, soil, and marine or freshwater sediments, where they may occur quite frequently (up to 25,000 animals per liter). Tardigrades, in the case of Echiniscoides wyethi,[27] may be found on barnacles.[28] Often, tardigrades can be found by soaking a piece of moss in water.[29]
Anatomy and morphology[edit]
Tardigrades have barrel-shaped bodies with four pairs of stubby legs. Most range from 0.3 to 0.5 mm (0.012 to 0.020 in) in length, although the largest species may reach 1.2 mm (0.047 in). The body consists of a head, three body segments with a pair of legs each, and a caudal segment with a fourth pair of legs. The legs are without joints, while the feet have four to eight claws each. The cuticle contains chitin and protein and is moulted periodically.
All adult tardigrades of the same species have the same number of cells (see eutely). Some species have as many as 40,000 cells in each adult, while others have far fewer.[30][31]
The body cavity consists of a haemocoel, but the only place where a true coelom can be found is around the gonad. No respiratory organs are found, with gas exchange able to occur across the whole of the body. Some tardigrades have three tubular glands associated with the rectum; these may be excretory organs similar to the Malpighian tubules of arthropods, although the details remain unclear.[32]
The tubular mouth is armed with stylets, which are used to pierce the plant cells, algae, or small invertebrates on which the tardigrades feed, releasing the body fluids or cell contents. The mouth opens into a triradiate, muscular, sucking pharynx. The stylets are lost when the animal molts, and a new pair is secreted from a pair of glands that lie on either side of the mouth. The pharynx connects to a short esophagus, and then to an intestine that occupies much of the length of the body, which is the main site of digestion. The intestine opens, via a short rectum, to an anus located at the terminal end of the body. Some species only defecate when they molt, leaving the feces behind with the shed cuticle.[32]
The brain develops in a bilaterally symmetric pattern.[33] The brain includes multiple lobes, mostly consisting of three bilaterally paired clusters of neurons.[34] The brain is attached to a large ganglion below the esophagus, from which a double ventral nerve cord runs the length of the body. The cord possesses one ganglion per segment, each of which produces lateral nerve fibres that run into the limbs. Many species possess a pair of rhabdomeric pigment-cup eyes, and numerous sensory bristles are on the head and body.[35]
Tardigrades all possess a buccopharyngeal apparatus (swallowing device made of muscles and spines that activates an inner jaw and begins digestion and movement along the throat and intestine[36]) which, along with the claws, is used to differentiate among species.
Reproduction[edit]
Shed cuticle of female tardigrade, containing eggs.
Although some species are parthenogenic, both males and females are usually present, each with a single gonad located above the intestine. Two ducts run from the testis in males, opening through a single pore in front of the anus. In contrast, females have a single duct opening either just above the anus or directly into the rectum, which thus forms a cloaca.[32]
Tardigrades are oviparous, and fertilization is usually external. Mating occurs during the molt with the eggs being laid inside the shed cuticle of the female and then covered with sperm. A few species have internal fertilization, with mating occurring before the female fully sheds her cuticle. In most cases, the eggs are left inside the shed cuticle to develop, but some species attach them to nearby substrate.[32]
The eggs hatch after no more than 14 days, with the young already possessing their full complement of adult cells. Growth to the adult size therefore occurs by enlargement of the individual cells (hypertrophy), rather than by cell division. Tardigrades may molt up to 12 times.[32]
Ecology and life history[edit]
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Most tardigrades are phytophagous (plant eaters) or bacteriophagous (bacteria eaters), but some are carnivorous to the extent of eating other smaller species of tardigrades (e.g., Milnesium tardigradum).[37][38]
Tardigrades share morphological characteristics with many species that differ largely by class. Biologists have a difficult time finding verification among tardigrade species because of this relationship. These animals are most closely related to the early evolution of arthropods.[39] Tardigrade fossils go as far back as the Cretaceous period in North America. This specific species is considered cosmopolitan and can be located in regions all over the world. The eggs and cysts of tardigrades are so resistant to other dangers that they are carried great distances, on the feet of other animals, to a different location.[40]
Physiology[edit]
Hypsibius dujardini imaged with a scanning electron microscope
Scientists have reported tardigrades in hot springs, on top of the Himalayas, under layers of solid ice, and in ocean sediments. Many species can be found in milder environments such as lakes, ponds, and meadows, while others can be found in stone walls and roofs. Tardigrades are most common in moist environments, but can stay active wherever they can retain at least some moisture.
Tardigrades are one of the few groups of species that are capable of suspending their metabolism (see cryptobiosis). Many species of tardigrade can survive in a dehydrated state up to five years, or in exceptional cases longer.[41][42] Depending on the environment, they may enter this state via anhydrobiosis, cryobiosis, osmobiosis, or anoxybiosis. While in this state, their metabolism lowers to less than 0.01% of normal and their water content can drop to 1% of normal.[13] Their ability to remain desiccated for such long periods was thought to be largely dependent on the high levels of the nonreducing sugar trehalose, which protects their membranes, though recent research suggests that tardigrades have a unique type of disordered protein that serves a similar purpose: It replaces water in the cells and adopts a glassy, vitrified state when the animals dry out.[43] Their DNA is further protected from radiation by a protein called "dsup" (short for damage suppressor).[44][45] In this cryptobiotic state, the tardigrade is known as a tun.[46]
Tardigrades are able to survive in extreme environments that would kill almost any other animal. Extremes at which tardigrades can survive include those of:
Temperature – tardigrades can survive:
A few minutes at 151 °C (304 °F)[47]
30 years at −20 °C (−4 °F)[48]
A few days at −200 °C (−328 °F; 73 K)[47]
A few minutes at −272 °C (−458 °F; 1 K)[49]
Pressure – they can withstand the extremely low pressure of a vacuum and also very high pressures, more than 1,200 times atmospheric pressure. Tardigrades can survive the vacuum of open space and solar radiation combined for at least 10 days.[50] Some species can also withstand pressure of 6,000 atmospheres, which is nearly six times the pressure of water in the deepest ocean trench, the Mariana trench.[30]
Dehydration – the longest that living tardigrades have been shown to survive in a dry state is nearly 10 years,[15][16] although there is one report of leg movement, not generally considered "survival",[51] in a 120-year-old specimen from dried moss.[52] When exposed to extremely low temperatures, their body composition goes from 85% water to only 3%. As water expands upon freezing, dehydration ensures the tardigrades do not get ripped apart by the freezing ice.[53]
Radiation – tardigrades can withstand 1,000 times more radiation than other animals,[54] median lethal doses of 5,000 Gy (of gamma rays) and 6,200 Gy (of heavy ions) in hydrated animals (5 to 10 Gy could be fatal to a human).[55] The only explanation found in earlier experiments for this ability was that their lowered water state provides fewer reactants for ionizing radiation.[55] However, subsequent research found that tardigrades, when hydrated, still remain highly resistant to shortwave UV radiation in comparison to other animals, and that one factor for this is their ability to efficiently repair damage to their DNA resulting from that exposure.[56]
Irradiation of tardigrade eggs collected directly from a natural substrate (moss) showed a clear dose-related response, with a steep decline in hatchability at doses up to 4 kGy, above which no eggs hatched.[57] The eggs were more tolerant to radiation late in development. No eggs irradiated at the early developmental stage hatched, and only one egg at middle stage hatched, while eggs irradiated in the late stage hatched at a rate indistinguishable from controls.[57]
Environmental toxins – tardigrades are reported to undergo chemobiosis, a cryptobiotic response to high levels of environmental toxins. However, As of 2001[update], these laboratory results have yet to be verified.[51][52]
Outer space – tardigrades are the first known animal to survive in space. In September 2007, dehydrated tardigrades were taken into low Earth orbit on the FOTON-M3 mission carrying the BIOPAN astrobiology payload. For 10 days, groups of tardigrades were exposed to the hard vacuum of outer space, or vacuum and solar UV radiation.[3][58][59] After being rehydrated back on Earth, over 68% of the subjects protected from high-energy UV radiation revived within 30 minutes following rehydration, but subsequent mortality was high; many of these produced viable embryos.[50][60] In contrast, hydrated samples exposed to the combined effect of vacuum and full solar UV radiation had significantly reduced survival, with only three subjects of Milnesium tardigradum surviving.[50] In May 2011, Italian scientists sent tardigrades on board the International Space Station along with extremophiles on STS-134, the final flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour.[61][62][63] Their conclusion was that microgravity and cosmic radiation "did not significantly affect survival of tardigrades in flight, confirming that tardigrades represent a useful animal for space research."[64] In November 2011, they were among the organisms to be sent by the U.S.-based Planetary Society on the Russian Fobos-Grunt mission's Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment to Phobos; however, the launch failed. Tardigrades are one of the few groups to have survived Earth's five mass extinctions.[65]
Taxonomy[edit]
See also: List of bilaterial animal orders
Illustration of Echiniscus sp. from 1861[citation needed]
Scientists have conducted morphological and molecular studies to understand how tardigrades relate to other lineages of ecdysozoan animals. Two plausible placements have been proposed: tardigrades are either most closely related to Arthropoda ± Onychophora, or tardigrades are most closely related to nematodes. Evidence for the former is a common result of morphological studies; evidence of the latter is found in some molecular analyses.
The latter hypothesis has been rejected by recent microRNA and expressed sequence tag analyses.[66] Apparently, the grouping of tardigrades with nematodes found in a number of molecular studies is a long branch attraction artifact. Within the arthropod group (called panarthropoda and comprising onychophora, tardigrades and euarthropoda), three patterns of relationship are possible: tardigrades sister to onychophora plus arthropods (the lobopodia hypothesis); onychophora sister to tardigrades plus arthropods (the tactopoda hypothesis); and onychophora sister to tardigrades.[67] Recent analyses indicate that the panarthropoda group is monophyletic, and that tardigrades are a sister group of Lobopodia, the lineage consisting of arthropods and Onychophora.[66][68]
Panarthropoda

Water bears (Tardigrada)

Lobopodia

Velvet worms (Onychophora)

Arthropods (Arthropoda)

The minute sizes of tardigrades and their membranous integuments make their fossilization both difficult to detect and highly unusual. The only known fossil specimens are those from mid-Cambrian deposits in Siberia and a few rare specimens from Cretaceous amber.[69]
Echiniscus testudo[citation needed]
The Siberian tardigrade fossils differ from living tardigrades in several ways. They have three pairs of legs rather than four, they have a simplified head morphology, and they have no posterior head appendages, but they share with modern tardigrades their columnar cuticle construction.[1] Scientists think they represent a stem group of living tardigrades.[69]
Rare specimens in Cretaceous amber have been found in two North American locations. Milnesium swolenskyi, from New Jersey, is the older of the two; its claws and mouthparts are indistinguishable from the living M. tardigradum. The other specimens from amber are from western Canada, some 15–20 million years earlier than M. swolenskyi. One of the two specimens from Canada has been given its own genus and family, Beorn leggi (the genus named by Cooper after the character Beorn from The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien and the species named after his student William M. Legg); however, it bears a strong resemblance to many living specimens in the family Hypsibiidae.[69][70]
Aysheaia from the middle Cambrian Burgess shale has been proposed as a sister taxon to an arthropod-tardigrade clade.[71] Tardigrades have been proposed to be among the closest living relatives of the Burgess shale oddity Opabinia.[72]
Genomes and genome sequencing[edit]
Tardigrade genomes vary in size, from about 75 to 800 megabase pairs of DNA.[73] Hypsibius dujardini has a compact genome and a generation time of about two weeks; it can be cultured indefinitely and cryopreserved.[74]
The genome of Ramazzottius varieornatus, one of the most stress-tolerant species of Tardigrades, was sequenced by a team of researchers from the University of Tokyo in 2015. Analysis revealed less than 1.2% of its genes were the result of horizontal gene transfer. They also found evidence of a loss of gene pathways that are known to promote damage due to stress. This study also found a high expression of novel Tardigrade-unique proteins, including Damage suppressor (Dsup), which was shown to protect against DNA damage from X-ray radiation. The same team applied the Dsup protein to human cultured cells and found that it suppressed X-ray damage to the human cells by ~40%.[45]
Ecological importance[edit]
Many organisms that live in aquatic environments feed on species such as nematodes, tardigrades, bacteria, algae, mites, and collembolans.[75] Tardigrades work as pioneer species by inhabiting new developing environments in which to live. This movement attracts other invertebrates to populate that space, while also attracting predators.[76]
See also[edit]
List of microorganisms tested in outer space
Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment – study of selected microorganisms in outer space
Mopsechiniscus franciscae – tardigrade found in Victoria Land Antarctica
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