Fossil tracks from 545 million years ago suggest complex life forms were already crawling around before the Cambrian ...

Rangemorphs, marine organisms that looked a bit like ferns, were some of the earliest complex organisms on Earth. Earlier life forms were mostly single-celled and reproduced simply by dividing.

A unique event of underwater volcanic activity caused continents to collide and produce nutrient-rich regions that could ...

What was the first adventurous organism to try its luck on land hundreds of millions of years ago when all other complex life lived under the sea? Scientists have now identified the oldest known ...

Like bacteria, archaea are single-celled organisms. Genetically, however, there are significant differences between the two domains, especially regarding their cell envelopes and metabolic processes.

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA—and it likely lived on Earth only 400 million years after its formation.

Speaking of his études for piano, Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti compared them with growing organisms, "proceeding from a very simple core idea and leading from simplicity to great complexity ...

Scientists created the little gingerbread-looking man by cultivating 100,000 0.1mm balls of collagen, each coated with dozens of skin cells and dropping them inside a doll-shaped mold for a day ...

This has implications for how likely complex life forms might be on other planets. “It is not known how common intelligent life is in the Universe,” Drakesmith said.

Created by a mutually beneficial relationship between fungus and either algae or cyanobacteria, lichens are complex organisms, with no two being exactly the same. The fungus makes up the primary ...