Himalayas reiterate a tale of planetary transformation — of drifting continents, lost oceans, and the birth of life itself.

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 ...

"Algae use light to oxidize water ... while seaweed is a macroalga, or multicellular organism, Tasca said. "Macroalgae are more hardy, easier to work with, easier to harvest," Tasca said, while ...

These algae have twirling flagella that allow them to move under their own power. They are usually unicellular. But they can switch into a multicellular form under certain stressful conditions.

forms of multicellular life emerged. Lizzy Trower (top) and Carl Simpson. Trower image courtesy of Lizzy Trower; Simpson photo by CU photographer Glenn Asakawa. At the top of the page: A screen ...

In February 2024, our previous analysis demonstrated that this ancient algae was multicellular. The group containing glacier algae lost the ability to create complex multicellular forms ...

The researchers assembled four multicellular Zygnema strains using two from an algae culture collection at the University of Texas Austin and two from the University of Göttingen in Germany.

red algae and fungi. As different as these multicellular creatures might be, their bodies are all composed of the same type of cell — eukaryotic cells, which enclose their DNA in a nucleus and possess ...

Groundbreaking fossils unearthed in China suggest that multicellular organisms arose ... similar to modern-day algae. The study shows that analyzing ancient organisms can help unravel the ...

such as red and green algae, and putative fungi, appeared as early as 1.05 billion years ago. Older records have claimed to be multicellular eukaryotes, but most of them are controversial because ...

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