Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it ...

Mitochondria are vital for almost every multicellular organism because they help us process oxygen to generate the energy we need to survive. Without mitochondria, the organism cannot rely on ...

Single-celled organisms that group together can generate stronger water currents to pull in food, a benefit that may have encouraged early life forms to assemble into colonies, according to a new ...

Scientists have identified a new species of microscopic worms living in the ground below South African mines, isolated from fracture water gushing up from miles below the Earth's surface. It is the ...

A bizarre ancient life-form, considered to be the first giant organism to live ... All life on Earth is classified within three domains — bacteria, archaea and eukarya — with eukarya containing all ...

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

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

The fluid dynamics of cooperative feeding may have sparked single cells to assemble into complex, multicellular life, as illustrated by pond-dwelling trumpet-shaped, single-celled giants.

The physics of how a quirky pond organism filters the water for food provides new insights into a possible driver of early evolution.

An electron microscopy images of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria that featured on the covers of the 2022 edition of The ...