Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

The death of an organism does not spell the end for its cells, according to new research. Cells have been shown to continue ...

Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take ...

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

Ancient microbes illustrate a particular kind of respiration in which carbon dioxide and hydrogen are combined to form acetic ...

The discovery has sparked interest among scientists studying endolithic microorganisms, unknown life forms inside rocks.

In the desert areas of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, research work has revealed unusual structures that are probably due to the activity of an unknown microbiological life form. Unusually small ...