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The animal kingdoms of Asia and Australia are worlds apart, thanks to an invisible line that runs right between the two ...
A Cambrian fossil once thought to be a mollusk ancestor is now identified as a chancelloriid relative, reshaping ideas about ...
It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants feed upon. What seems to be an inert plant, a part of the ecological ...
Thousands of tiny nematode worms can join up to form tentacle-like towers that can straddle large gaps or hitch rides on ...
Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...
I went hands-on with Veo 3, Google's new AI video generator that can create some truly mind-blowing fake videos to test its ...
For the first time, Antarctic krill have been found on seafloor vents. One scientist is working to figure out what they are ...
For over a century, scientists have wrestled with one of biology’s most fundamental mysteries: how the first animals evolved.
Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have identified a previously unknown species of unicellular organism in seawater ...
They are the foundation of complex, multicellular life including all animals, plants and fungi, as well as many unicellular organisms. “The origin of eukaryotic cells has long remained a mystery ...
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.