Humans like to think that being multicellular (and bigger) is a definite advantage, even though 80% of life on Earth consists ...

The physics of how a quirky pond organism filters the water for food provides new insights into a possible driver of early ...

Microscopic Wonders: Amoeba, Rotifers, and Ciliates in Action Posted: March 17, 2025 | Last updated: March 18, 2025 The film explores the fascinating ways various organisms move, focusing on ...

Captivating footage taken on January 31 in Hong Kong, China, captured the mesmerizing moment an amoeba consuming a ciliate. The video shows the amoeba slowly engulfing the single-celled organism ...

To adapt to changing environmental pressures, bacteria have developed various methods that allow them to uptake exogenous DNA and incorporate it into their own genomes. One of these processes is ...

Production of methane by methanogenic archaea, or methanogens, in the rumen of ruminants is a thermodynamic necessity for microbial conversion of feed to volatile fatty acids, which are essential ...

In total, 120 taxa (80 identified to species or genus level) were recorded in the young ice. The protist community developed over the study period from a ciliate, flagellate, and dinoflagellate ...