This image shows a tardigrade, a microscopic animal that can live in water and moss. Baker University students study the animals, which are known as “water bears” because of their bear-like appearance ...

Tardigrades are famous for their extreme durability, but new research shows how good they are at walking, despite their teeny size and squishy bodies. Tardigrades feature a resume beyond compare.

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For 24,000 years, tiny creatures lay dormant, entombed in the frozen depths of Siberia’s permafrost. These microscopic creatures, known as bdelloid rotifer, were in a suspended state between life and ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. If I get ...

Scientists have managed to revive microscopic animals that had been frozen in the Siberian permafrost for 24,000 years. The Bdelloid rotifers, or “wheel animals” as they’re sometimes called, shook off ...

Researchers have developed a microscope specifically for imaging large groups of interacting cells in their natural environments. The instrument provides scientists with a new tool for imaging neurons ...

Little light permeates 100 meters below sea level where the ocean's twilight zone begins. Although this section of the ocean is relatively food-depleted, the twilight zone is teeming with sea life ...

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 ...

Microscopic marine predators can ingest microplastic, which in turn lowers their growth and overall abundance, finds a recent study published in Frontiers in Marine Science. This has implications for ...

Diversity and Distributions, Vol. 29, No. 7 (July 2023), pp. 821-833 (13 pages) Aim: The interplay between distribution ranges, species traits and sampling and taxonomic biases remains elusive amongst ...

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 ...