These slimy creatures may look like aliens from another planet but they are actually the life teeming inside a single drop of pond water. The colourful organisms were captured using a photography ...

Rare microscopic creatures have been discovered in caves in the Scottish Highlands. Researchers found the tiny crustaceans, named ostracods, in the famous Smoo Cave in Sutherland and Allt nan Uamh ...

They are known as one of the most indestructible life forms on Earth. But tardigrades are also one of the smallest animals with legs and among the only creatures with soft bodies that can walk. Now ...

In a remarkable scientific breakthrough, Russian researchers have successfully revived bdelloid rotifers, microscopic animals ...

If you go to the beach and dip a bucket in the sea, you might at first think it contains lifeless water. But examine that water under a microscope and you will see your bucket contains a universe of ...

Biologist Ruben Duro Perez has spent his life capturing amazing photographs and film of tiny creatures. The 51-year-old says he does not consider himself to be a scientist but more of a photographer.

YOU'D be forgiven for thinking that tardigrades, also known as water bears, are aliens on Earth. The microscopic creatures are so bizarre that they've left some scientists wondering if they arrived ...

It's a small world after all, as evidenced by the winners of Nikon's 40th annual Small World Photomicrography Competition. Rogelio Moreno won the top spot for capturing a unique image of a microscopic ...

A tiny creature was able to survive 24,000 years of being frozen — and then reproduce once thawed, a new study suggests. The microscopic multi-celled organism, known as a bdelloid rotifer, was dug up ...

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