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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A tiny, noodle-shaped animal that no one expected to find in the United States has been pulled from the mud at the bottom of ...

Utah’s Great Salt Lake has just yielded a new resident, a microscopic animal that no one had ever documented there before.

A lot has changed on Earth in just the last few decades, but for a recently revived microscopic creature, it has tens of thousands of years to catch up on. In a new study published this week in the ...

It's a member of the tardigrade family. Also known as water bears or moss piglets, these are widespread and ancient microscopic animals, around half a millimetre long at most and generally found in ...

The research narrated in this article was conducted within the Italian national Antarctic research program (PNRA), with the support of the Brazilian Antarctic program (PROANTAR), the Chilean Antarctic ...

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Microscopic animals held algae captive and stole their genes for energy production, thereby evolving into a new and more powerful species many millions of years ago reveals a new study published today ...

If you see a funky-looking blob while you’re fishing in Ohio, don't look away. It could be a colony of numerous animals. Invertebrates in this colony, known as the bryozoan or "moss animals," reside ...