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

It’s commonly recognized that birds rank among the closest direct descendants of dinosaurs, but many people wonder if they can be classified as animals. We’ll work through the defining ...

But in recent years another kind of microbe has displayed worrying levels of resistance: fungi. Dangerous fungal infections are rising across the world, especially among the growing number of ...

They’re in us, on us, and all around us. A growing movement to study and protect our fungal neighbors may define our intertwined futures. Ushering in the next generation and growth cycle, spores ...

Fungi are under threat as their habitats are polluted and destroyed. Hundreds of species of fungi have now been added to the latest conservation Red List, but very little is known about millions of ...

while all multicellular organisms are classified as Eukaryotes. Eukaryotes are generally subdivided into four kingdoms: animals, plants, fungi, and protists (basically a catch-all category for all ...

Instead of making food from sunlight, some of these plants have become parasitic and primarily suck nutrients out of the fungi in their roots. Whether these orchids change their feeding method ...

Colombo, 5790; 87020-900; Maringá - PR - Brasil Fungi are widely distributed in nature and can occur as unicellular yeast or filamentous and, multicellular molds. There are over 70,000 species of ...

Michael Cunliffe received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) for the project MYCO-CARB and currently receives funding from the UKRI Horizon Europe Guarantee scheme for the projects ...

But multicellular organisms, like plants, animals, and fungi, have to maintain a multitude of cells in complex tissues, organs and structures. And this places a far higher energy demand on the ...

But multicellular organisms—organisms made of many cells, like plants, animals and fungi—need significantly more energy to sustain additional structures, like tissues that help cells ...