A single rotifer, which is composed of about 1,000 cells, can range from half a millimeter to 1 millimeter (the smallest division on a metric ruler). That means it would take about 100 rotifers, laid ...

Bdelloid rotifers, microscopic animals found nearly all in freshwater ... Christie is a seasoned science journalist and cell and molecular biology PhD; her debut book Venomous: How Earth’s Deadliest ...

For 24,000 years, tiny creatures lay dormant, entombed in the frozen depths of Siberia’s permafrost. These microscopic creatures, known as bdelloid rotifer, were in a suspended state between ...

While this may look like a campfire scene from a bad dream, these are all rotifers. About 1,800 species of these tiny animals have been described to date. They live in fresh water all over the world, ...