A microscopic animal has come back to life and successfully reproduced after being frozen for 24,000 years, according to a study published by Russian scientists on Monday. Bdelloid rotifers, are known ...

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Russian researchers have pulled off a feat that sounds closer to science fiction than standard lab work, reviving microscopic “zombie worms” that had been locked in Arctic ice for roughly 24,000 years ...

Rotifers are multicellular, microscopic marine animals that live in soils and freshwater environments. They are transparent and can be easily grown in large numbers. As such, they have been used in ...

How a group of animals can abandon sex, yet produce more than 460 species over evolutionary time, became a little less mysterious this week with the publication of the complete genome of a bdelloid ...

A microscopic animal has been revived after slumbering in the Arctic permafrost for 24,000 years. Bdelloid rotifers typically live in watery environments and have an incredible ability to survive.

A new study shows that humans and tiny aquatic animals known as rotifers have something important in common when it comes to sex. Barely visible without a microscope, rotifers eat algae and serve ...

A tiny animal called a rotifer has been revived after spending 24,000 years frozen in permafrost. It is the longest a rotifer has been observed to survive in such extreme cold. While simple organisms ...