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 ...

Bdelloid rotifers typically live in watery environments ... apart from a thin layer near the surface – were about 24,000 years old. Long-dead but well-preserved mammals, including extinct ...

The frozen Siberian rotifers aren’t the record holders for the oldest multicellular creatures to be brought back from the dead, though.Gizmodo reports that nematode worms dated to at least ...

The tiny creatures were thought to be the toughest on the planet, but there's a creature that might be even tougher.The creature is called the Bdelloid rotifers, and it's being revived after being ...

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 ...

All the rotifers were dead at the end of four minutes. In one specimen observed, addition of 0.01 c.c. of the filtrate caused retraction of the ciliary wreath, and some slowing of bodily movement ...

or from filling up with dead plant matter. They are so good at this that some fish owners and even aquarium staff use rotifers to help clean the water in tanks containing fish and other aquatic ...

Animals too migrate to escape danger but one group – the pond-living bdelloid rotifers – have taken this game of hide-and-seek to an extreme. If they are threatened by parasitic fungi ...