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

The nonprofit iNaturalist announced that it received a $1.5-million grant from Google’s philanthropic arm to develop ...

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 ...

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 word “system” can mean an individual organism, a population, or an ecosystem. That gets around the reproduction problem, but at a cost: vagueness.

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 ...

Most organisms have two parents, but not all. Could an individual have three parents, ... the maximum number of parents is limited because each individual has a clear beginning and end.

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.