Your home is crawling with life you can't see. Explore 18 fascinating microscopic beings that live in most houses, from dust mites to strange fungi.

The microscopic creatures can withstand the harsh environment of outer space, making them ideal candidates to study new ways to protect astronauts. Reading time 3 minutes Tardigrades, tiny, ...

Rebecca Totten, associate professor at the University of Alabama looks into the mud at the bottom of the Amundsen Sea in Antarctica. Totten, a micro-paleontologist studies microscopic fossils of sea ...

Mono Lake is a beautiful but harsh environment, its salty and arsenic-laced water home to brine shrimp, alkali flies and little else. Scientists recently discovered an unsuspected resident, however, a ...

For 24,000 years, tiny creatures lay dormant, entombed in the frozen depths of Siberia’s permafrost. These microscopic creatures, known as bdelloid rotifer, were in a suspended state between life and ...

Tony dives into the hidden world of tiny, sometimes microscopic creatures. Naturalist Tony Mills dives into the hidden world of tiny, sometimes microscopic creatures that live in freshwater and in ...

New research has unraveled the mystery of how microscopic cilia coordinate to move and propel marine creatures through water. Cilia are tiny, hair-like protrusions found in many organisms, including ...

When thinking about strange animals, we may automatically summon up an image of the famous blobfish with its sullen, slimy face, or the duck-billed platypus, a mammal that has somehow decided to lay ...

One evening earlier this year, I came downstairs after putting our 4-year-old daughter to bed to find my husband looking at a series of maps of the United States, each showing possible futures given ...