Scientists successfully thawed and revived a rotifer, a multicellular organism frozen for 24,000 years, which astonishingly began reproducing again.
Ice is a heck of a preservative, but keeping something alive for thousands of years is different than keeping your meat fresh ...
Scientists in Siberia have revived a bdelloid rotifer, a microscopic animal, that had been frozen in permafrost for 24,000 ...
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 ...
If sex is so great, how has the bdelloid rotifer been able to do without it for 30 million years? That's a puzzle scientists at Cornell University think they have an answer to. But what is a bdelloid ...