Video: Commonly known as wheel animals, rotifers feed by means of a ring of slender projections called cilia, which appear to spin like a propeller as the animal draws in water filled with a meal of dead bacteria, algae and other detritus.
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Quanta Magazine, "Ancient Survivors Could Redefine Sex," 19 Nov. 2014
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