Single-celled organisms that group together can generate stronger water currents to pull in food, a benefit that may have ...

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

Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

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

Cells constantly shift and transform, triggering the complex choreography that shapes living organisms. Whether dividing into ...

The research indicates that the limitations on the size of proteins has been a crucial trigger in the development of life ...

DNA microscope creates 3D images of organisms from the inside out. (Image: Weinstein Lab, University of Chicago) ...

Basal multicellular animals are capable of coordinated movement despite the absence of an organize nervous system, though it remains unclear how cells communicate in these organisms. Here they use ...

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

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