The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Complex life, eukaryotes, traces its origins to a shared ancestor among the Asgard archaea, reshaping our understanding of ...

A major study shows complex cells evolved gradually in an oxygen-poor world, challenging long-held assumptions about life’s ...

As eukaryotic cells started to form, eukaryotic traits may have emerged in early cells about one billion years before the ...

Scientists have discovered a “fire amoeba” capable of surviving temperatures typically impossible for complex life.

Eukaryotic cells grow and divide through a specific series of cellular events. These events are tightly controlled, ensuring that the resultant daughter cells are free of DNA errors, and subject to ...

With protruding appendages that each end in an orb, Solarion arienae vaguely resembles a cartoon Sun or a retrofuturistic ...

Oliverio and fellow Syracuse microbiologist Beryl Rappaport discovered the organism at Lassen Volcanic National Park in ...

Prokaryotes are ancient, simple forms of life that include bacteria and archaea. These cellular life forms lack membrane-bound organelles. Those organelles, which include the nucleus and the ...

The sun has just set on a quiet mudflat in Australia’s Northern Territory; it’ll set again in another 19 hours. A young moon looms large over the desolate landscape. No animals scurry in the waning ...

A single-celled organism squirming about in the searing waters of California's Lassen Volcanic National Park has just set a ...