Tardigrades, commonly known as water bears, may be better suited by a new name: Tardiguardians of the Galaxy. Unlike the ...

Imagine an animal able to survive any harsh condition known to man. This animal actually exists right in your own backyard! Tardigrades, also known as Water Bears, are water-dwelling, microscopic ...

If you see a funky-looking blob while you’re fishing in Ohio, don't look away. It could be a colony of numerous animals. Invertebrates in this colony, known as the bryozoan or "moss animals," reside ...

New ice lithography method enables creation of nanoscale patterns on living tardigrades, advancing integration of biological systems with technology for sensing and monitoring. (Nanowerk Spotlight) ...

Utah’s Great Salt Lake has just yielded a new resident, a microscopic animal that no one had ever documented there before. The discovery of a tiny roundworm, formally described as a new species, is ...

HAYDEN LAKE, Idaho – Diane Lawrence couldn’t identify the gelatinous masses attached to the community dock in her Hayden Lake subdivision. They were translucent with a jellyfish-like texture, and they ...

A tardigrade belonging to the genus Echiniscus, photographed by scanning electron microscope. Differences between one or two physiological traits were long thought sufficient to distinguish between ...