Rotifers have been the big wheels of the microscopic world for more than 300 years, so it's fitting that a rotifer's wheel-like head gets its turn in the photographic spotlight. An extreme close-up of ...

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 ...

A female Brachionus manjavacas rotifer, as magnified under a microscope. This rotifer is 350 µm long; about the size of a grain of sand. The hair-like cilia at the top of the individual are used for ...

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, ...

Astonishingly, scientists in Siberia revived microscopic rotifers from permafrost, dormant for nearly 24,000 years. These resilient creatures, found in ancient ice, not only survived but reproduced, ...