Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A microscopic animal has come back to life and successfully reproduced after being frozen for 24,000 years, according to a study ...

The permafrost formation, called Yedoma, kept the rotifer frozen solid at around -20 degrees C for the entire period.

A lot has changed on Earth in just the last few decades, but for a recently revived microscopic creature, it has tens of thousands of years to catch up on. In a new study published this week in the ...

Some animals are microscopic, like the bdelloid rotifer. These multicellular animals are extremely tough, and can survive starvation, freezing, drying, and a lack of oxygen. Now, scientists have ...

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, ...

June 7 (UPI) --Move over water bears, rotifers are pretty tough too. According to new research, Bdelloid rotifers, a class of microscopic invertebrates, can remain frozen for thousands of years and ...

A microscopic animal has been revived after slumbering in the Arctic permafrost for 24,000 years. Bdelloid rotifers typically live in watery environments and have an incredible ability to survive.

A microscopic animal has come back to life and successfully reproduced after being frozen for 24,000 years, according to a study published by Russian scientists on Monday. Bdelloid rotifers, are known ...