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

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.

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

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

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

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take ...

Life emerged on Earth some 3.8 billion years ago. The "primordial soup theory" proposes that chemicals floating in pools of water, in the presence of ...

New research sheds light on one of the biggest questions in biology: where did complex life come from? The answer may lie ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

"These cells co-develop together, just like they would in an actual embryo, and establish that history of being neighbors," ...

Researchers with the University of South Florida have identified viruses associated with Karenia brevis, the single-celled ...