Much about tiny, swimming rotifers makes them ideal study subjects. Although barely visible to the naked eye, these transparent animals and their innards are readily viewed under a microscope. What’s ...

A female Brachionus manjavacas rotifer, as magnified under a microscope. This rotifer is 350 µm long; about the size of a grain of sand. The hair-like cilia at the top of the individual are used for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A microscopic animal has come back to life and successfully reproduced after being frozen for 24,000 years, according to a study ...

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 ...

May I introduce you to the rotifer, a magical microscopic critter that uses a buzz saw to suck its victims into its face. than a hundredth of an inch long. Those spinning parts are the business end of ...

Bdelloid rotifers are multicellular animals so small you need a microscope to see them. Despite their size, they're known for being tough, capable of surviving through drying, freezing, starvation, ...