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

In a study published in Systematic Biology, researchers from Imperial College London, UCL, Dalhousie University and the ...

Scientists still disagree on whether viruses are truly alive or not. What scientists can agree on is that a virus adapts to ...

Researchers found that cooperative fluid dynamics between single-celled organisms may have driven the evolution of ...

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

There's no question that humans have left an indelible mark on the world, but we're also inadvertently steering the evolution ...

New study shows how bird traits like gene makeup and clutch size shape evolution. This may help scientists understand ...

So why do so many life-forms breathe oxygen? There are probably thousands of kinds of metabolisms, or chemical processes that ...

In a world that looked nothing like today’s, long before the rise of the dinosaurs or even the first trees, giant living ...

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

William Murphy, Ph.D., from the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been named the 2025 SEC Professor of the Year.

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...