Animal life, emerging nearly 600 million years ago, showcases incredible diversity and unique traits. Unlike plants, animals ...

How life arose remains a looming question in science that researchers are seeking to answer by studying the features shared among life today. Everything alive is made up of cells, and what made the ...

Mono Lake, tucked in the Eastern Sierra, is no ordinary lake. Its eerie tufa towers and teeming swarms of brine shrimp and ...

Very little is known about choanoflagellates, and there are interesting biological phenomena that we can only gain insight ...

For most of human history, the overall population is believed to have remained quite low. But since the early 1800s, the ...

Around 591 million years ago, Earth’s nearly vanished magnetic field triggered a surge in oxygen that paved the way for ...

This eukaryotic microbe, which is part of the National Institutes of Health model organism initiative for biomedical and human disease research, is genetically tractable and undergoes a 24-hour life ...

Earth's magnetic field was so weak it almost disappeared. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, complex life emerged.

But Mosura was different. Instead of the familiar streamlined body with flaps and claws, this little predator had something ...

"My contention is that Earth may, if we are lucky and diligent and clever enough, grow an emergent superconsciousness." ...

Researchers have made a surprising discovery of Henneguya salminicola, a microscopic parasite residing in salmon muscles, as the first multicellular ... single-celled organisms such as fungi ...

NASA research shows oxygen loss, not asteroids, will end life on Earth. Discover when and how this will happen in the distant future. The post Oxygen loss, not asteroids, will end life on Earth, warns ...