Single-celled organisms that group together can generate stronger water currents to pull in food, a benefit that may have ...

New research sheds light on one of the biggest questions in biology: where did complex life come from? The answer may lie ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered form of microbes ... essential for the development of complex life ...

Scientists reveal the role of hidden microbes called Asgard archaea in the origins of complex life, challenging long-held ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

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

A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science, Tokyo, has uncovered a ...

Environmental stress in evolution can be reframed as a powerful engine of innovation, not simply a barrier to survival.

In 2007, a team led by Stanford geobiologist Kevin Boyce found that carbon isotopes in the fossils resembled those of fungi — ...