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

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

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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 ...

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

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 Shashank Shekhar ... the fluid dynamics involved in the filter feeding of stentors. He first focused on a single stentor, ...