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 ...

Archaea—one of the three primary domains of life alongside bacteria and eukaryotes—are often overlooked and sometimes ...

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

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

“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 ...

Single-celled organisms that group together can generate stronger water currents to pull in food, a benefit that may have encouraged early life forms to assemble into colonies, according to a new ...

Stentor coeruleus is a giant unicellular, filter-feeding protist that uses the coordinated motion of its oral ciliary structure to generate feeding currents. The mystery of how multicellular life ...

Revisiting the building blocks of life: Archaea, often seen as simple organisms, demonstrate remarkable adaptability, potentially providing clues about how multicellular life originated and evolved ..