The study, led by PhD student Jonathan Jung, pushes back fossil evidence of the first known coral symbiosis by over 170 ...

Recent observations in brown algae from researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen and the University of Dundee reveal the same hourglass pattern during embryogenesis as animals and ...

Algae embryo development mirrors patterns in animals and plants, revealing the shared crucial stages in the evolution of complex life forms.Recent ...

Would you take your next vacation to this slimy beach? It isn't nuclear waste these people are swimming in, it's algae! And if it took over all our oceans, it would change a lot more about our lives ...

Tiny diatoms in the ocean are masters at capturing carbon dioxide from the environment. They fix up to 20 percent of the Earth's CO2. A research team has now discovered a protein shell in these algae ...

A recent study suggests that by the Neoproterozoic period, distinct lineages of amoebae, as well as the ancestors of plants, ...

NASA scientists believe life could exist beneath icy surface on Mars as a result of photosynthesis. In a new paper published ...

(UM News Service) The ocean’s twilight zone is deep, dark and – according to recent research – iron deficient. No sunlight ...

A research team has used nitrogen isotope analysis to demonstrate that 385 million years old corals from the Eifel and Sauerland regions had symbionts. This finding represents the earliest evidence of ...

Plants, trees, and soil absorbed almost no net CO2 last year. If this continues, we're in bigger trouble than we thought.

Giant viruses inhabiting the oceans infect, among others, various species of single-celled algae, photosynthetic organisms that are responsible for about half of the Earth's oxygen production and ...

A new NASA study suggests that life could exist ... This could support microbial life, as seen in Earth’s ice-covered waters. On Earth, algae, fungi, and cyanobacteria thrive in water pools ...