From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes ...

Life on Earth blooms with wild ingenuity. From phosphorescent fungi feeding in the undergrowth to chameleons flicking tongues ...

For over a century, scientists have wrestled with one of biology’s most fundamental mysteries: how the first animals evolved.

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Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have identified a previously unknown species of unicellular organism in seawater ...

Understanding the origin of the building block of all animal and plant life may lead to more insights about life on Earth and ...

They are known to infect amoebas and other unicellular organisms rather than animals or humans. The Jyvaskylavirus particle is approximately 200 nanometers in diameter. For comparison, that’s ...

With a focus firmly on plants, Black masterfully uses science to breathe life into ancient worlds in which some of our favorite prehistoric animals ... and other mostly unicellular organisms.

The great evolutionary leap from unicellular organisms to the animal kingdom took place roughly 700 million years ago. A new breakthrough offers a glimpse into the molecular tools that may have ...

Around 700 million years ago, the animal kingdom began to branch off from single-celled organisms. Now, scientists have uncovered molecular tools that could have assisted the leap — and ...