There are around 1,500 species of tardigrade that we know about, and the new study matches previous research into Hypsibius ...

Tardigrades are eight-legged micro-animals believed to have been around ... to survive extreme conditions such as desiccation, radiation, and the vacuum of space. This phenomenon is known as ...

"The Grand Canyon is an epic Rosetta Stone for geology," Denver Museum of Nature and Science geologist James Hagadorn said.

Since soon after our planet formed, Earth's 4.6 billion-year-long history was dominated by single-celled life. Something ...

A new species of tardigrades with thousands of genes that become more active when exposed to radiation could help in devising ...

"The Tonto Group of Grand Canyon holds a treasure trove of sedimentary layers and fossils chronicling the Cambrian Explosion some 500 million years ago, when the first animals with hard shells ...

This research is among the first to closely examine how chronic, low-level radiation affects the physiology of animals in ...

The frogs residing in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone appear remarkably unaffected by radiation when it comes to their age and ...

The results showed no difference between the lifespan, rate of aging, and stress indicators in Chernobyl's tree frogs ...