New fossil research shows that teeth originally evolved as sensory tissue embedded in the armored exoskeletons of ancient ...

As world leaders gear up for the third UN Ocean Conference in Nice, one policy expert is making waves with an ancient marine organism he believes could help feed the planet, clean the air, and ...

Colorado State University scientists have developed the first genetic toggle switch that can turn specific genes on or off in ...

Himalayas reiterate a tale of planetary transformation — of drifting continents, lost oceans, and the birth of life itself.

multicellular organism that scientists call "consortia." Another special element of MMB is the "magnetotactic" in its name, which means it orients itself based on Earth's magnetic field.

Depending on your definition, the Earth features many "biggest" living things. Today we're looking at where they stack up against each other and figuring out why the largest organism on Earth ...

The hard-boiled detectives came to their conclusion based on a single-celled organism that long ... well before the first animals appeared on Earth,” said biochemist and study lead author ...

Chromosphaera perkinsii, a unicellular organism found in Hawaii, first appeared ... the first animals appeared on Earth,” study lead author Omaya Dudin said. Multicellular development of ...

The first signs of its presence on Earth have been ... for this type of organism. "Although C. perkinsii is a unicellular species, this behavior shows that multicellular coordination and ...

This event has been called “Snowball Earth,” and you’d think it would be a terrible time to be alive — and maybe, for some organisms, it was. However, in a warmer period between glaciations, the first ...