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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Floscularia ringens is king of its castle. Brick by brick, this microscopic rotifer – or “wheel animal” – builds the tube it inhabits. To make its home, the rotifer gathers organic debris from the ...

The differences among the copepod, rotifer and Who communities cannot be discerned by the naked eye. It took a loud “yopp” from JoJo, a tiny denizen of Whoville, to reveal their existence to the ...