In a recent study, researchers gained new insight into the lives of bacteria that survive by grouping together as if they ...

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

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

So why do so many life-forms breathe oxygen? There are probably thousands of kinds of metabolisms, or chemical processes that ...

Previously believed to be plant or fungi, these giant organisms may have been a now-extinct fourth type of life.

A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to ...

The revived organisms resumed their biological activities as if they hadn't been without oxygen and light for thousands of ...

Mesoscale ocean eddies transport nutrients and energy-rich lipids, helping sustain marine ecosystems far from coasts.

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