Scientists then leaned towards it being a giant fungus, but the classification remained uncertain. A 2007 study even ...

Amber Dance is an award-winning freelance science journalist based in Southern California. After earning a doctorate in biology, she re-trained in journalism as a way to engage her broad interest in ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

According to this latest study, all complex life forms (a.k.a. eukaryotes) trace their roots back to a common ancestor among a group of microbes called the Asgard archaea.

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

New research sheds light on one of the biggest questions in biology: where did complex life come from? The answer may lie ...

How do scientists study and classify life-forms? How can we understand the complex evolutionary connections between living organisms? Woese's breakthrough was momentous for at least three reasons.

Scientists reveal the role of hidden microbes called Asgard archaea in the origins of complex life, challenging long-held ...

ETH researchers discovered related structures in Asgard archaea and describe their structure. These experiments show that ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered form ...