Researchers found that cooperative fluid dynamics between single-celled organisms may have driven the evolution of ...

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

Humans like to think that being multicellular (and bigger) is a definite advantage, even though 80% of life on Earth consists ...

Researchers have revived microalgae that had been dormant for millennia in the sediments of the Baltic Sea. This ...

Evolution describes changes in inherited traits of populations through successive generations. To fully understand the science of ecology, one must first be able to grasp evolutionary concepts.

In a recent study, researchers gained new insight into the lives of bacteria that survive by grouping together as if they ...

“Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself.”– Kenneth R. Miller, Biologist, Brown University If you are reading this sentence, you’re ...

We share the planet with a huge diversity of plants and creatures. But we can see similarities between organisms that live continents apart or are very different in other aspects. One reason for this ...

The fluid dynamics of cooperative feeding may have sparked single cells to assemble into complex, multicellular life, as ...

Being magnetotactic means that MMB are part of a select group of bacteria that orient their movement based on Earth's ...

Enzymes originally evolved in high-temperature environments and later adapted to lower temperatures as Earth cooled. Scientists discovered that a key shift in enzyme function occurred over ...

A stentor is a trumpet-shaped, single-celled organism up to 2 mm long. It uses its holdfast to anchor to surfaces in ponds or ...