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 ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Bdelloid rotifers are complex, microscopic animals that live in and near freshwater. Although only about half a millimeter in size, they have a ...

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 ...

In 2016, a study suggested that bdelloid rotifers cultivate genetic diversity by sharing DNA among themselves via horizontal transfer. But in work published today (July 12) in Current Biology, a ...

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