The oldest eukaryotes we've found lived exclusively on the seafloor and already used oxygen. The discovery overturns certain long-held assumptions about the group while corroborating others.

I didn’t plan to spend my evening spiraling into an existential puddle while reading random facts on the internet. I thought ...

Underground fungi may be one of Earth s most powerful and overlooked allies in the fight against climate change, yet most of them remain unknown to science. Known only by DNA, these "dark taxa" make ...

The field of environmental microbiology increasingly recognizes the environment as a significant reservoir for human pathogens and antimicrobial resistance ...

The University of Wyoming recently hosted its annual Undergraduate Research and Inquiry Across the Disciplines (URID) event, ...

In 2019, a team working in the forests of Madagascar formally described a mouse lemur so small it fits in a human palm. That same year, marine biologists cataloged a ghostly white octopus living near ...

An international research team led by Cologne-based plant scientist Professor Dr. Bart Thomma from the Institute for Plant Sciences, the Collaborative Research Center MiBiNet and the CEPLAS Cluster of ...

The natural world doesn’t always fit neatly into our defined boundaries, says Will Newton ...

On April 26, 1848, English naturalists Alfred Wallace and Henry Bates set sail for the Amazon from England. The expeditions that followed varied in duration for both men, but yielded profound insights ...

Mycologists cultivated fungi they found in post-wildfire landscapes to understand the evolutionary traits behind their ability to thrive in the wake of flames The fire-loving fungus Geopyxis, seen ...