Archaea—one of the three primary domains of life alongside bacteria and eukaryotes—are often overlooked and sometimes ...

When subjected to physical pressure, archaea - ancient single-celled organisms - form multicellular structures.

In a recent study, researchers gained new insight into the lives of bacteria that survive by grouping together as if they ...

The mystery of how multicellular life evolved has long baffled scientists, who’ve spent years trying to understand how solitary single-celled organisms began living in unison and triggered the ...

The first-ever synthetic multicellular organism is ready to come to life after a Sydney breakthrough 10 years in the making.

Tiny magnetic bacteria that live in tightly bound groups are showing scientists how life might have evolved complex, multicellular forms. These rare bacteria can’t survive alone – they depend on one ...

WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- Humans like to think that being multicellular (and bigger) is a definite advantage, even though 80 percent of life on Earth consists of single-celled organisms – some thriving in ...

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

The physics of how a quirky pond organism filters the water for food provides new insights into a possible driver of early evolution.

The fluid dynamics of cooperative feeding may have sparked single cells to assemble into complex, multicellular life, as illustrated by pond-dwelling trumpet-shaped, single-celled giants.

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together. By Jack Tamisiea For a creature made up of only a single cell ...

Induction of Multicellularity: When mechanically compressed, the salt-loving archaeon Haloferax volcanii can shift from being ...