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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A study shows that researchers can tweak a natural process to increase the amount of carbon that reaches the ocean floor and the ...

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