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

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

To keep the host cell alive ... et al, A giant virus infecting the amoeboflagellate Naegleria. Nature Communications. (2024) DOI: 10.1038/S41467-024-47308-2 The single-celled organism Naegleria ...

Scientists from the UK recently conducted a detailed re-examination of a fossilized Prototaxites species found in ...

Giant viruses dating back 1.5 billion years ... consisted of bacteria while others belonged to archaea - a single-cell organism similar to bacteria - which requires extreme environments to ...

In addition, studies of cell origin focus on the evolution of multicellularity, the state of cells cooperating to form a single organism, a large step toward the creation of the vertebrates and ...