Life emerged on Earth some 3.8 billion years ago. The "primordial soup theory" proposes that chemicals floating in pools of water, in the presence of sunlight and electrical discharge, spontaneously ...

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.

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

A team from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) has revived algae that lay dormant in Baltic Sea sediment for nearly 7,000 years.

Fossils known as Prototaxites, which once dominated the land, have puzzled scientists since Darwin’s days. New evidence ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...