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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tiny aquatic animal can also withstand desiccation, radiation and extreme heat, and reproduces asexually An animal that has thrived without males for millions of years will be a source of inspiration ...
DNA carries the blueprint for building bodies, but it’s a living document: Adjustments to the design can be made by epigenetic marks. In humans and other eukaryotes, two principal epigenetic marks are ...
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A rotifer got buried in the Siberian permafrost. 24,000 years later, it came back to life
In the dark, untouched areas of the planet are the most tough and resilient species of creatures you could ever imagine. Rotifers are microscopic animals typically found in freshwater, and thin layers ...
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, ...
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