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 ...

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

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

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

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

An international team of researchers discovered a new specimen called Quaestio simpsonorum—a pancake-shaped creature that represents on of the earliest examples of complex life on Earth.

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