Previously believed to be plant or fungi, these giant organisms may have been a now-extinct fourth type of life.

Unusual structures of unknown origin discovered in desert rocks have been documented in a new study. In the desert regions of ...

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

As nations continue to experience exponential population growth, the unending search for food security continues to take ...

Analysis - When people talk about the coronavirus, they sometimes describe this invisible entity as if it has a personality ...

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

Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

Scientists have discovered exactly how the human anus may have evolved around 550 million years ago. The body part it may ...

Schrödinger later revised his view – around the 1950s – suggesting that life depends on free energy. Free energy is the ...

Humans like to think that being multicellular (and bigger) is a definite advantage, even though 80% of life on Earth consists ...

The physics of how a quirky pond organism filters the water for food provides new insights into a possible driver of early evolution.

“Culture, as we talk about, is an organism,” Dickert told college football analyst Adam Breneman on Sunday's 'Next Up.' “It’s living, breathing, dying every day.” (00:28) ...