A microscopic creature from a boiling hot spring in Northern California has just reset the upper limit for how hot complex ...

Scientists have discovered a single-celled organism in the hot springs of Lassen Volcanic National Park, which is not only ...

Microscope image of the multicellular alga Streptosarcina arenaria, another terrestrial alga, which inhabits dry and tropical areas. (scale is 10 µm, corresponding to 0.01 mm). Credit: Tatyana ...

Researchers have discovered that a single-celled organism, a close relative of animals, harbors the remnants of ancient giant viruses woven into its own genetic code. This finding sheds light on how ...

Depending upon how you do the counting, there are around 9 million species on Earth, from the simplest single-celled organisms to humans. It’s reassuring to imagine that complex bodies and brains like ...

How did the complex organisms on Earth arise? This is one of the big open questions in biology. A collaboration between the working groups of Christa Schleper at the University of Vienna and Martin ...

Oxygen played a key role in the evolution of complex organisms, according to new research published in BMC Evolutionary Biology. The study shows that the complexity of life forms increased earlier ...

All complex life, a.k.a. eukaryotes, trace their roots to a common Asgard archaean ancestor. According to this latest study, all complex life forms (a.k.a. eukaryotes) trace their roots back to a ...

In the multicellular soil bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor, some cells start producing lots of antibiotics after mutations delete big chunks of their genomes. Now a computer model has helped to ...

Of all the organisms that photosynthesize, land plants have the most complex form. How did this morphology emerge? A team of scientists has taken a deep dive into the evolutionary history of ...

Liquid samples of different algal species investigated in the study, all stored in the Culture Collection of Algae at Göttingen University. Of all the organisms that photosynthesize, land plants have ...