A soft-bodied, fernlike creature reproduced in Earth's ancient oceans about 565 million years ago, making it the earliest known example of procreation in a complex organism, a new study finds. Many ...

Ever wondered what a genetically modified organism (GMO) is? The world of experimental science is in continuous evolution and one of its milestones is represented by the appearance of such genetically ...

For the first time, researchers at Umeå University have observed the same type of programmed cell death in microalgae as in humans. The discovery, published in Nature Communications, shows that this ...

Let’s start at the very beginning, several billion years ago, when the first specks of life began to crawl across the barren planet that’s now called Earth. There were no cameras to record images of ...

A food web is a detailed interconnecting diagram that shows the overall food relationships between organisms in a particular environment. The simplest explanation is that food webs are "who eats whom" ...

This 440 million-year-old fungus helped life take root outside the oceans. Life oozed out of the seas onto land somewhere between 450 and 500 million years ago, but we have almost no fossils from this ...