In 2011, Camilo Mora, a biogeographer at the University of Hawaii, and his colleagues wrote a paper in PLOS Biology estimating the total number of eukaryotic species on Earth. Their final count was ...

As the famed British naturalist David Attenborough noted, “In our hands now lies not only our own future but that of all ...

Very few species on Earth today are considered “living fossils ... It took another two billion years for more complex ...

In a new publication, the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) announces the success of its pilot project. This initiative ...

What are some of the fascinating sea plants? They play an essential role in the marine ecosystem by providing food, shelter ...

The organisms were species from two genera ... s possible we could be looking at the first discovery of a free-living eukaryotic organism that has “completely dispensed” with mitochondria.

"These are among the oldest eukaryotes that have ever been discovered ... "We were hoping to find species with interesting ...

Researchers unveiled the curatedFoodMetagenomicData (cFMD) resource, revealing extensive microbial diversity in food and its ...

From bacteria to blue whales, every living being on Earth relies on cell division for growth, reproduction, and species survival ... that also plays a role in eukaryotic cell proliferation ...

RNA polymerases have been found in all species, but the number and composition of these proteins vary across taxa. For instance, bacteria contain a single type of RNA polymerase, while eukaryotes ...

The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) pilot project reports its success in uniting scientists from across Europe to produce high-quality reference genomes for 98 species. This marks a significant ...