A baby tardigrade riding a nematode won $600 in Nikon's Small World in Motion Video Competition. Quinten Geldhof captured the video using a microscope and an iPhone. His setup cost under $1,000. The ...

An image of a tardigrade with a psychedelic light show in its guts took home a top prize in an international photo competition. Inside the microscopic and endearingly tubby "water bear," tiny internal ...

Tardigrades are nearly indestructible organisms that have existed for at least 540 million years. But their tiny size makes finding fossilized tardigrades is hard. A new study describes a tardigrade ...

Nature has produced some incredibly hardy animals, from the bowhead whale which can live at least two centuries to the crocodile that's lived longer than most people ever will. But while there are ...

Every year, Olympus organises the Image of the Year Life Science Light Microscopy Award, inviting anyone who uses a microscope to capture biology images to submit some of the best images they’ve taken ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Tardigrades are some of the toughest animals on the planet. These ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Here at Live Science, our top choice for "cute animal" is the roly-poly and nearly indestructible ...