In a victory for open science the world's most resilient animal has been found to be a little less alien. Recently the tardigrade/water bear genome was found to have the most foreign DNA of any animal. Data sharing between rival labs now indicates that the earlier finding resulted from contamination

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In a victory for open science the world's most resilient animal has been found to be a little less alien. Recently the tardigrade/water bear genome was found to have the most foreign DNA of any animal. Data sharing between rival labs now indicates that the earlier finding resulted from contamination