The nonprofit iNaturalist announced that it received a $1.5-million grant from Google’s philanthropic arm to develop generative AI tools for species identification. The news didn’t go over well ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed a new way of analyzing fossils, allowing them to see how creatures ...

What is the largest organism? Until a few years ago, Oregon’s “humongous fungus” was considered the world’s largest organism.

On closer inspection, however, the visible sphere, measuring a few millimeters across, is in fact a colony of anywhere from 500 to 60,000 individual organisms, "swimming" together as one.

It may be an individual organism, like E. coli, but it could also be a mixture of organisms that interact and rely on each ...

Through single-celled cooperation, new individual organisms had begun to form. Ratcliff and Travisano are continuing their experiments, trying to figure out whether the yeast snowflakes show other ...

The discovery of this giant Armillaria ostoyae in 1998 heralded a new record holder for the title of the world's largest known organism, believed by most to be the 110-foot- (33.5-meter-) long ...

Also, a "life form" could be defined as a species of microbe or an individual organism. If using the former, scientists estimate a person has about 1,000 on their skin.

The research, published on January 17, 2024 in Nature Physics, accurately describes neuronal connectivity in a variety of model organisms and could apply to non-biological networks like social ...

President Donald Trump called himself the 'father of IVF,' or in-vitro fertilization. Patients are rejoicing at his latest executive order.

Siphonophores are unusual animals made up of individual organisms called "zooids," which each have a distinct function — despite being genetically identical. When you purchase through links on ...

It may be an individual organism, like E. coli, but it could also be a mixture of organisms that interact and rely on each other in their natural habitat.