The rise of multicellular animals about 540 million years ago was a turning point in the history of life. A group of Finnish scientists suggests a new climate-biosphere interaction mechanism for the ...

MILWAUKEE, March 22 (UPI) --Researchers have discovered some of the oldest evidence of multicellular organisms. Scientists hope the newly discovered marine algae fossils, ancient ancestors of seaweed, ...

The evolution of multicellular life has played a pivotal role in shaping biological diversity. However, we have up until now known surprisingly little about the natural environmental conditions that ...

At some point, organisms changed and grew from a single cell into one made up of many cells. But how that happened is not well understood. New work by graduate candidate Jonathan Featherston of the ...

One of the big evolutionary questions in life is how and why single cell organisms organised themselves to live in a group, thereby forming multicellular life forms. Wits PhD student, Jonathan ...

The history of life on Earth is shrouded in shadow, but we're slowly shedding more light on where we came from. Now, newly-discovered fossils of what look like red algae discovered in Chitrakoot, ...

An unassuming little alga may hold the secret to how the sexes evolved. A single gene that determines male or female sex in multicellular algae evolved from a more primitive version found in a ...

Scientists may be one step closer to determining when exactly photosynthesizing plants (Viridiplantae) first evolved, with the discovery of a new species of ancient algae they have named Proterocladus ...

All together now: yeasts can evolve to form snowflake-like multicellular shapes (Image: Courtesy of Jennifer Pentz, Georgia Tech) The leap from single-celled life to multicellular ...