When thinking about strange animals, we may automatically summon up an image of the famous blobfish with its sullen, slimy face, or the duck-billed platypus, a mammal that has somehow decided to lay ...
Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest ...
University of Wyoming researchers have gained further insight into how tardigrades survive extreme conditions and shown that proteins from the microscopic creatures expressed in human cells can slow ...
In a remarkable scientific breakthrough, Russian researchers have successfully revived bdelloid rotifers, microscopic animals ...
Scientists at the University of Nottingham discovered that planarians use a rich supply of pluripotent stem cells, which allows them to regenerate endlessly. Bdelloid Rotifers Are Practically Survival ...
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 ...