Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” So goes the famous dictum of Sherlock Holmes, echoed by paleobotanist C. Kevin Boyce in summarizing ...

It is not everyday that a scientist gets to identify an entirely new type of life. Not just a newly discovered plant or animal, but something dissimilar enough to anything else that they believe a new ...

Some red algae exhibit structural color that gives their growth tips a blue hue and the rest of their bodies including their fruiting structures a white hue. Moreover, since the color-producing ...

When astronomers announced last month they might have discovered the most promising hints of alien life yet on a distant planet, the rare good news raised hopes humanity could soon learn we are ...

Sydney (AFP) – A vast bloom of toxic algae is killing more than 200 species of marine life off the southern coast of Australia, scientists and conservation groups say. The algae -- Karenia ...

Researchers have made a surprising discovery of Henneguya salminicola, a microscopic parasite residing in salmon muscles, as the first multicellular animal that doesn't breathe oxygen. This ...

So for these reasons, the researchers turned to green algae. Green algae are plant-like organisms that usually live in water. They are similar to plants because they make their own food through ...

Along these lines, in research published last year, scientists took a closer look at the behavior of a type of bacteria called multicellular magnetotactic bacteria (MMB). What they found was ...

The L.A. County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a motion Tuesday to help address a growing crisis of toxic algae sickening and killing sea life. Over the last three months, hundreds of ...

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Now, things have gotten so bad that L.A. County lifeguards have begun taking mental health days off to cope with the devastation as an algae bloom is poisoning and killing marine life from San ...