Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces.

Some single-celled organisms are known to transition to multicellularity during their lifetimes, usually either by cloning themselves or when many similar cells come together to form a larger ...

For decades, scientists have believed that complex life began when two very different microbes joined forces, eventually ...

Scientists think they’ve found a way to investigate the creation of cell membranes and DNA genomes that gave rise to the last ...

Dolphins developed streamlined bodies and other adaptations when they transitioned from land to water 50 million years ago. Credit: Pexels.com.

Microbe of the month: Chloracidobacterium validum – valid description of a new family and order of Acidobacteria ...

Imagine something alive today that was already ancient when woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth. Now imagine that it spent the last 40,000 years locked in frozen ground, dormant but not dead — just ...

A study of ancient fossilized crustaceans uncovers how cold-water species once migrated across the North Pacific, revealing ...

Conor has been staunchly in favor of Android since graduating to a smartphone from his hot pink Motorola RAZR. In fact, he'll gladly ruin a friendly dinner in service of lambasting Apple devices to ...

There has been a long-standing debate regarding the theory of “Species as Individuals (SAI)” within biological philosophy. Scholars such as Ghiselin, Hull, Mishler, and Brandon have played pivotal ...