But complex multicellular organisms have arisen just six times on the tree of life: plants, animals, two groups of fungi, and two groups of algae.

The slightly warmer temperatures around the middle of the Earth melted the top layers of ice to form meltwater ponds that ...

Modern-day environments in Antarctica contain ponds filled with life forms that closely resemble early multicellular ...

More recently, though, I’ve noticed that microalgae are popping up more and more, to the point that I started to wonder: What ...

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This superfood not only enhances overall health but also plays a crucial role in boosting the immune system, especially in older adults with anemia ...

Recent observations in brown algae from researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen and the University of Dundee reveal the same hourglass pattern during embryogenesis as animals and ...

That’s because the vast majority of theories about Snowball Earth’s influence on the evolution of multicellular animals, plants, and algae focus on how levels of oxygen, inferred from isotope ...

Frigid temperatures hundreds of millions of years ago, during ancient periods known as Snowball Earth, may have created the conditions for complex multicellular life to evolve. New experiments show ...

The group containing glacier algae lost the ability to create complex multicellular forms, possibly in response to the extreme environmental pressures of the Cryogenian. Rather than becoming more ...

The group containing glacier algae lost the ability to create complex multicellular forms, possibly in response to the extreme environmental pressures of the Cryogenian.