Our gut is home to a micro-universe of tiny powerhouses, complete with their own genes and immune and metabolic profiles, ...

It's Saturday! This week, in an eminently practical analysis of the Boltzmann brain conjecture, physicists put constraints on ...

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...

Learn how one-celled organisms, or single-celled organisms, helped build complex life.

Called 'prototaxites', this lifeform lived on Earth around 410 million years ago, before becoming extinct 360 million years ...

Researchers studying exquisitely preserved Scottish fossils say Prototaxites represents an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage - a “new form of life” in the sense that it does not fit into known major ...

Protaxites: The discovery that could change the understanding of life - Scientists have potentially discovered a new ...

Researchers have developed an economical random fractional 13C labeling strategy using methanol for eukaryotic membrane proteins expressed in yeast. This method significantly improves spectral ...

Key PointsMicrobial fossils provide some of the earliest direct physical evidence of life on Earth.Researchers are probing less-studied parts of the ...

It stood tall, rock hard and impossible to ignore — and for years scientists didn’t quite know what to make of it. Now ...

Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have ...