Scientists discovered a 400-million-year-old fossil known as Prototaxites, which does not belong to any known life form ...

Since Prototaxites were discovered in the fossil record in 1843, scientists have debated whether they were early land plants, giant fungi, algae, or a whole new kingdom of life. Some of these options ...

A bizarre 400-million-year-old fossil may not be a plant, animal, or even a fungus. Known asPrototaxites, this extinct ...

Scientists in the US who do research on mRNA technology worry their funding may be cut under President Trump. mRNA technology is the basis for COVID- and other vaccines and could play a role in cancer ...

The first place that goo will be going is ... as any one of the thousands of species of multicellular ocean plants are classified—could be a way to do that. Compared to terrestrial vegetation ...

Like to Aristotle, the Greek philosopher and influential early zoologist, plants were sort of the ... sexual reproducers, and multicellular...ers. Like this lioness is made of millions of cells.

In flowering plants, gametes initiate from sporophytic cells while being surrounded by multicellular tissues ... can be divided into two specific steps (Wang et al., 2023). In the first step, the ...

today assumes a more general meaning recognizing that microorganisms are universally present on and associated with multicellular eukaryotic organisms. The plant “holobiont” represents an assembly of ...

A volunteer spotted the tiny, fuzzy plant with maroon florets while exploring the remote northern corner of Big Bend National ...

Plant behavior may seem rather boring compared with the frenetic excesses of animals. Yet the lives of our vegetable friends, ...

The team recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell walls ...