Researchers led by the University of Cambridge have found the earliest example of reproduction in a complex organism. Their new study has found that some organisms known as rangeomorphs, which lived ...

Land-based life, including humans, fireflies and birds, is significantly impacted by artificial light at night. However, a recent study by Cornell University, United States, argued that we should ...

The smallest organism capable of independent reproduction and growth is Mycoplasma genitalium, a parasitic species of ultramicrobacterium that lives in the respiratory and genital tracts of primates.

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CAMBRIDGE, England, Aug. 3 (UPI) --Statistical analysis has revealed the sexual behavior of creatures from the genus Fractofusus, a type of rangeomorph, was surprisingly complex. In a new study, ...

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A new study of 565 million-year-old fossils has identified how some of the first complex organisms on Earth -- possibly some of the first animals to exist -- reproduced, revealing the origins of our ...

Artist's reconstruction of the Fractofusus community on the H14 surface at Bonavista Peninsula showing the clusters that arise from stolon-like reproduction. The large individuals represent the ...