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 ...

After exposing notoriously resilient microscopic animals called tardigrades to simulated Martian soil, they began to move extremely slowly ...

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 ...

A tiny, noodle-shaped animal that no one expected to find in the United States has been pulled from the mud at the bottom of the Great Salt Lake. The microscopic roundworm, identified as a brand‑new ...