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 ...

Today, Earth is home to animals of all shapes and sizes, from nearly microscopic creatures like tardigrades to 80-foot-long (25 meters) blue whales. These organisms have arisen and evolved over ...

One evening earlier this year, I came downstairs after putting our 4-year-old daughter to bed to find my husband looking at a series of maps of the United States, each showing possible futures given ...

Learn how microscopic fossils reveal that tiny seafloor organisms were already feeding and recycling nutrients soon after one ...

Tony dives into the hidden world of tiny, sometimes microscopic creatures. Naturalist Tony Mills dives into the hidden world of tiny, sometimes microscopic creatures that live in freshwater and in ...

The microscopic creatures can withstand the harsh environment of outer space, making them ideal candidates to study new ways to protect astronauts. Reading time 3 minutes Tardigrades, tiny, ...

New research has unraveled the mystery of how microscopic cilia coordinate to move and propel marine creatures through water. Cilia are tiny, hair-like protrusions found in many organisms, including ...