A tiny amoeba has broken a pretty big record. The newly discovered species of single-celled organism can divide and reproduce ...

Oliverio and fellow Syracuse microbiologist Beryl Rappaport discovered the organism at Lassen Volcanic National Park in ...

To understand the origins of multicelled life, researchers are studying a motley assortment of simpler animal relatives. The commonalities they’re unearthing offer a trove of clues about our mutual ...

The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by ...

The clearest picture yet of our “last universal common ancestor” suggests it was a relatively complex organism living 4.2 billion years ago, a time long considered too harsh for life to flourish. If ...

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