Rotifer recovering from week-long cryptobiosis in the lab. Credit: Lyubov Shmakova. For 24,000 years, tiny creatures lay dormant, entombed in the frozen depths of Siberia’s permafrost.

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 ...

These microscopic creatures, known as bdelloid rotifer, were in a suspended state between life and death — until Russian scientists thawed them. As the microscopic animals “zombie” activated ...

Don’t worry—this isn’t a Walking Dead situation. The undead organisms in questions are called bdelloid rotifers, or microscopic “wheel animals” named for their circular mouths surrounded ...

The rotifer species Kellicottia bostoniensis (Rousselet, 1908) is a transcontinental invader native to North America that has spread to the South American continent (Branco et al., 2024). In the Upper ...

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