Newly uncovered fossils hint that multicellular life may have evolved more than 2 billion years ago -- some 200 million years earlier than previously expected, according to a study published this week ...

Earth’s history is filled with incredible milestones, and the emergence of the first animals is one of the most captivating.

perkinsii is a unicellular species, this behavior shows that multicellular ... came first. Beyond the debate, these findings highlight the remarkable versatility of early life on Earth.

In fact, why and how multicellular life evolved has long puzzled biologists. The first known instance of multicellularity was about 2.5 billion years ago, when marine cells (cyanobacteria ...

Now he’s unlocked the final stage of a daring two-decades long research mission aimed at giving life to the first multicellular organism with entirely synthetic DNA. The groundbreaking ...

“So much work on the origins of multicellular life focuses on chemistry,” says ... involved in the filter feeding of stentors. He first focused on a single stentor, from the species Stentor ...

First, contrary to long ... mechanisms behind this profound step in life's evolutionary history on Earth. More information: George A. Schaible et al, Multicellular magnetotactic bacteria are ...