In 2007, a team led by Stanford geobiologist Kevin Boyce found that carbon isotopes in the fossils resembled those of fungi — ...

Scientists then leaned towards it being a giant fungus, but the classification remained uncertain. A 2007 study even ...

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

References used in the compilation of the Antarctic Marine Protists Glossary Corliss ... biotope: the living space of a community of organisms (plants, animals and microorganisms). blue-green algae: ...

All life on Earth is classified within three domains — bacteria, archaea and eukarya — with eukarya containing all multicellular organisms within the four kingdoms of fungi, animals, plants and ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

William K. Hayes et al. 2025. It’s a Small World After All: The Remarkable but Overlooked Diversity of Venomous Organisms, with Candidates Among Plants, Fungi, Protists, Bacteria, and Viruses. Toxins ...

The fish eat the toxic plankton, and the marine mammals and birds eat the poisonous fish, say experts. Scientists know there’s a domoic acid event happening offshore because they have been able ...

A new published study reveals plants, fungi, bacteria, protists, and even some viruses deploy venom-like mechanisms, similar to that of venomous ...

A new study reveals plants, fungi, bacteria, protists, and even some viruses deploy venom-like mechanisms, similar to that of venomous snakes, scorpions and spiders, according to researchers at ...

A satiety-inducing molecule called bombesin is not only present in humans and other vertebrates but also in invertebrates such as starfish and their marine relatives, according to new research.