Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together. By Jack Tamisiea For a creature made up of only a single cell ...

Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it ...

The fluid dynamics of cooperative feeding may have sparked single cells to assemble into complex, multicellular life, as illustrated by pond-dwelling trumpet-shaped, single-celled giants.

Japanese food giant Ajinomoto is launching three new ... an animal – it originates from a natural, non-modified, single-cell organism. Solar Foods and Ajinomoto formed a strategic product ...

A bizarre ancient life-form, considered to be the first giant organism to live on land ... Bacteria and archaea contain only single-celled organisms. Previous chemical analysis of Prototaxites fossils ...

giant fungi, algae, or a whole new kingdom of life. Some of these options have already been ruled out, and they’re now widely considered to have been a type of fungus. However, one species of ...

Examples of creatures thriving in the deep, dark oceans are the dumbo octopus, Mariana snailfish, jellyfish, supergiant amphipod, giant single-celled organisms, and the sea cucumber. These sea ...

The mystery of how multicellular life evolved has long baffled scientists, who’ve spent years trying to understand how solitary single-celled organisms began living in unison and triggered the ...

Scientists are suggesting there may be a brand new type of life — or, at least, that one existed back in the day ... Fossils of this bizarre organism, which lived some 400 million years ago, were ...

These include giant single-celled organisms with chalky shells (called ‘foraminifera’); highly specialised sea cucumbers and fish – and many species that rely on the nodules as the only hard ...

These include giant single-celled organisms with chalky shells (called ‘foraminifera’); highly specialised sea cucumbers and fish – and many species that rely on the nodules as the only hard surface ...