Researchers think a microbe that was engulfed by an algal cell 100 million years ago has since evolved into an integral part ...

Evolution is quite a wondrous and lengthy process, with some random bursts of activity that are responsible for the diversity ...

The Birth of the Nitroplast In an unprecedented discovery, researchers have documented a rare evolutionary leap where an ...

This means many locations will reach the upper 60s and lower 70s this afternoon as the marine air is pushed farther to the ...

Scientists have caught a once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event in progress, as two lifeforms have merged into one ...

Once known only to those studying biology, the word symbiosis is now widely used. Symbiosis is the intimate relationship of ...

“Very rare” could actually be considered an understatement. The first time this happened – as far as we know – it gave rise ...

Last time the phenomena occurred, Earth got plants for the first timeAn extremely rare once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary ...

It's far from the only example of a microbial marriage resulting in a cellular organ forming. Superstars of biochemistry like chloroplasts (the tiny factories that turn sunlight into energy, without ...

Modern biology textbooks assert that only bacteria can take nitrogen from the atmosphere and convert it into a form that is ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – Earth Day is almost upon us and to celebrate the holiday Meterologist David Burgett has turned one ...

An incredibly rare event that gave rise to the biological factories that first made complex life possible has been detected ...