Scientists study ancient unicellular organism C. perkinsii to understand transition from single-cell to multicellular life. Research suggests C. perkinsii demonstrates early forms of multicellular ...

What is ecology? The word “ecology” was proposed by German zoologist Ernst Haeckel in 1866. It means the study of the ...

There was no meaning to it. Yet, now there is plenty of meaning–at least to us, in the sense that we use the term: significance. So, where did all this meaning come from? How did meaning enter a ...

Scientists have discovered how a microscopic organism has benefited from nearly 80 million years without sex. Bdelloid rotifers are asexual organisms, meaning that they reproduce without males.

What is life? This is a question that is often asked and typically confused. The confusion starts from the several uses of the word "life" in English. There are at least three usages as exemplified by ...

A single-celled organism squirming about in the searing waters of California's Lassen Volcanic National Park has just set a record for heat tolerance.

The Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA), the theoretical single organism from which all life on Earth descends, is now ...

To develop new model organisms, scientists will have to find species that are easy to grow in the lab. Touring the Marine Resources Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, ...

It's tiny and needy, but is it alive? That's a question prompted by recent research that highlights a surprisingly complex part of biology. The organism in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum ...