The permafrost formation, called Yedoma, kept the rotifer frozen solid at around -20 degrees C for the entire period.

Imagine a world where life pauses for tens of thousands of years, only to resume as if no time had passed - much like Captain America waking up after 72 years. Scientists in Siberia have done just ...

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It thawed out — and then it multiplied. Scientists successfully revived a “zombie worm” that had been frozen for 24,000 years ...

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, ...

How a group of animals can abandon sex, yet produce more than 460 species over evolutionary time, became a little less mysterious this week with the publication of the complete genome of a bdelloid ...

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, ...