Coastal areas, which carry over 50% of the world's population, are essential to humankind because they offer abundant ...

Scudder’s book, Mother, Creature, Kin: What We Learn From Nature’s Mothers in a Time of Unraveling. My day-to-day parenting ...

Martin told me she would army crawl up to the turtles on the sand and dab around their eyes with a foam swab, soaking up the ...

Skin flakes are hard to digest. It’s like eating hair, or feathers. So dust mites have powerful digestive enzymes to break ...

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

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck ...

In Singapore, scientists have been studying a particular subtype called Blastocystis ST7. This version of Blastocystis is more common in Asia than in Western countries, and it has been linked to ...

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

Researchers found that cooperative fluid dynamics between single-celled organisms may have driven the evolution of ...

Humans like to think that being multicellular (and bigger) is a definite advantage, even though 80% of life on Earth consists ...

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