Plant cells are surrounded by an intricately structured protective coat called the cell wall. It’s built of cellulose ...

Syngenta Biotechnology China-led research, with partners in the U.S., France, the UK, Chile, the Netherlands, Argentina, and ...

The first-ever synthetic multicellular organism is ready to come to life after a Sydney breakthrough 10 years in the making.

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

The research indicates that the limitations on the size of proteins has been a crucial trigger in the development of life ...

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

A bizarre ancient life-form, considered to be the first giant organism to live on ... archaea and eukarya — with eukarya ...

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

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

Scientists uncovered how whole-genome duplication emerges and remains stable over thousands of generations of evolution in the lab.

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

US President Donald Trump wants the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine. According to a US statement, Trump apparently proposed transferring ownership of Ukraine’s power plants to the ...