Researchers found an unusual archaeon physically linked to a bacterium in Shark Bay. Tiny tube-like structures connect these ancient microbes, suggesting resource exchange. This discovery offers a ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet still gives rise to a kaleidoscope of different cell types and tissues. A ...

An international research team led from Uppsala University in Sweden has identified a metabolic shift in ancient microbes that helps explain how Earth’s first complex cells arose from a merger of ...

The problem of how life evolved on Earth has intrigued the minds of many great scientists for centuries. Now, according to an exciting study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

Explore the pivotal evolutionary breakthroughs that shaped every living thing Evolution, a new five-part series tells the extraordinary story of how life on Earth has changed over more than four ...