While there are plenty of weird animals in nature, some of the strangest organisms can only be seen under a microscope. Here ...

If you're going to try "tattooing" a microscopic animal, it would make sense to select one of the toughest creatures on the ...

Very little is known about the life cycle and lifespan of these parasites, but they are permanent fixtures to the fish and ...

Here is a microscopic view of these tiny creatures from the documentary "Invisible World." There are more living things on our bodies than people on Earth. The ability to see these creatures up close ...

In the chilly waters off the Northern California coast, palm-sized sea creatures known as Velella ... like Velella velella that feed on the microscopic organisms, scientists with the National ...

During Earth’s more than four-billion-year infancy, the planet’s only life was simple and microscopic ... strange and alien place. Evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould described the ...

Tapeworms aren’t the only microscopic creatures that look like something out of a horror movie. There are lots of other ...

The team put tardigrades into a cryptobiotic state (a sort of half-dead, suspended animation) by slowly dehydrating the microscopic animals. Then, the researchers placed an individual tardigrade ...

They survived solely by eating microscopic animals trapped by their stinging ... way to becoming one of the planet's top predators. Creepy-crawlies also began to appear on land.

Tardigrades could show how we would cope with punishing journeys to Mars. The microscopic creatures — which can survive extreme conditions — will be sent to the International Space Station in May.

Sounds like science fiction, right? But it's real! Meet the tardigrade, a microscopic creature that's one of the toughest critters on our planet. Their secret weapon is an amazing ability to go ...