For 24,000 years, tiny creatures lay dormant, entombed in the frozen depths of Siberia’s permafrost. These microscopic ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have successfully revived microscopic frozen organisms in Siberian permafrost for ...

The film explores the microscopic world found in a drop of pond water, revealing a diverse ecosystem of tiny plants and ...

Scientists have revived 24,000-year-old bdelloid rotifer microworms. The rotifers were frozen in permafrost in a long-term ...

She graduated from Arizona State University, where she studied genetics, cell, and developmental biology. View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Bdelloid rotifers are complex, ...

The scientists took the frozen rotifers and thawed them gently, at which point the rotifers began to just live their lives again, including their characteristic asexual reproduction. The secret of ...

Bdelloid rotifers, microscopic animals found nearly all in freshwater ecosystems worldwide, lack the enzymes that most animals use to silence regions of their genome by attaching chemical tags called ...