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5. The giant Gippsland earthworm can grow up to 3 metres in length. 6. The all-female microscopic common rotifer has thrived without males for millions of years. 7. The fen raft spider walks on ...

Certain small, freshwater animals protect themselves from infections using antibiotic recipes "stolen" from bacteria, according to new research by a team from the University of Oxford, the ...

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The experiments delivered include Rotifer-B2, which will examine the impacts of spaceflight on the repair mechanisms of the Adineta vaga species of rotifer, which are "tiny but complex organisms ...

Among the experiments is Rotifer-B2, which will study how spaceflight affects DNA repair mechanisms in the rotifer species Adineta vaga. "These tiny but complex organisms are known for their ...

Animals are not.” Yet among the many rotifer genetic sequences Wislon and his colleagues examined, they found instructions to build miniature antibiotic factories–essentially recipes swiped ...

There, they are also met with a music video featuring Rob Rotifer’s 2008 pop-punk tribute to the architect, entitled The Frankfurt Kitchen. (Rotifer’s own grandmother had fought in the ...

No, it’s not a strange new superhero. It’s a microscopic worm called a rotifer that was brought back to life after spending about 25,000 years locked in the arctic permafrost. Its tale is told ...

The animal is a tiny invertebrate known as a bdelloid rotifer. It lives in freshwater pools. If deprived of water, it survives in a desiccated state until water becomes available again. The secret to ...

Both of them became joined in the rotifer’s genome and they formed a functional enzyme. That’s not so easy to do, even in the lab, and it happened naturally. And then this composite enzyme created ...