30-Million-Year-Old Virgin
03/02/2010
Meet an animal that has been reproducing asexually by "virgin birth" for 30 million years: the rotifer. That's odd all by itself, but to me, it's amazing to think that life exists on such a tiny scale right around us. If life on Earth can be so small, who knows how many other planets out there are harboring living creatures that we just don't have the ability to see?
Photo: Public Library of Science Journal via Wikimedia Commons
VIDEO: Watch rotifers in action.
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these are rare to find and scientists are doing great effort to collect these.
Posted by: data recovery | 05/26/2010 at 07:12 AM
Its amazing really. This animal would in theory, never become extinct. No more "if you were the last man on earth"...
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makes you wonder what is still out there for scientists yet to discover...
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