Mirroring the mechanisms that make human faces and bodies—and those of many multicellular organisms—symmetrical, bee colonies ...
In a new study, Arizona State University researcher Michael Lynch explores the substantial energy demands required to maintain and evolve multicellular life. The study, using the water flea Daphnia as ...
Single-celled organisms called archaea can become multicellular when compressed, highlighting the role of physical forces in evolution ...
providing more evidence that the phenomenon may be a universal feature of complex multicellular organisms. Complex multicellularity evolved independently in various eukaryotic lineages ...
The strange creature—which bears a question-mark shape on its body—roved about like a prehistoric Roomba, researchers said.
Pando is the world's largest tree. Its name means "I spread" in Latin, and it does indeed spread: The organism has given rise ...
Oxygen is essential for living organisms, particularly multicellular life, to metabolize organic matter and energize all life ...
The classic question, “What came first, the egg or the chicken?” has intrigued philosophers and scientists for centuries. A ...
Later, animals - multicellular organisms - evolved, developing from a single cell, the egg cell, to form complex beings. This embryonic development follows precise stages that are remarkably similar ...
Hopkins expert Scot Miller discusses a new analysis challenging assumptions about the drivers of spiraling global methane ...