WOODS HOLE, Mass. — In case you were wondering, Kristin Gribble is not a basher of fruit flies or roundworms. She wants to be clear: She bears no ill will toward those invertebrates so often studied ...

Russian scientists successfully revived 24,000-year-old micro-organisms, bdelloid rotifers, from Siberian permafrost, ...

This podcast originally aired on August 17, 2021. Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American's Science, Quickly. I'm Karen Hopkin. What has one head, one foot and one heck of an origin story? No, it’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rotifers, tiny freshwater and marine invertebrates, have long provided an excellent model for exploring the mechanisms of inducible defences – a form of phenotypic plasticity whereby organisms alter ...

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, ...

The bdelloid rotifer is known for its ability to withstand extreme environments. A microscopic multi-celled organism has returned to life after being frozen for 24,000 years in Siberia, according to ...

All is not so quiet in the microscopic world. Sometimes it sounds like bvvvrrr, or at least it should. Say hello to the rotifer, a teensy critter that uses its buzzsaw face to suck in prey. How's that ...