Rotifers are multicellular, microscopic marine animals that live in soils and freshwater environments. They are transparent and can be easily grown in large numbers. As such, they have been used in ...

A new study shows that humans and tiny aquatic animals known as rotifers have something important in common when it comes to sex. Barely visible without a microscope, rotifers eat algae and serve ...

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 ...

Biologists are a step closer to figuring out the bizarre animals known as bdelloid rotifers, thanks to a new study in Science. This group of near-microscopic aquatic organisms has lived for tens of ...

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 ...