A stentor is a trumpet-shaped, single-celled organism up to 2 mm long. It uses its holdfast to anchor to surfaces in ponds or lakes, while its trumpet end creates a vortex to draw in food, such as ...

The fluid dynamics of cooperative feeding may have sparked single cells to assemble into complex, multicellular life, as ...

Life emerged on Earth some 3.8 billion years ago. The "primordial soup theory" proposes that chemicals floating in pools of water, in the presence of ...

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.

A University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka-led study is developing innovative methods to accurately predict how ice sheets ...