siphonophores—a group of creatures related to jellyfish and corals—may look like one organism, but they are actually made up of many thousands of individual, specialized clones that come ...

That’s some complicated behavior to see in a seemingly uncomplicated organism. Jennings’ original findings showed that little creatures exposed to carmine (a dye made up of crushed insects ...

For the most part, biologists agree that species are made up of organisms that are evolving together. And they also agree that for sexual organisms, shared reproduction within species and the ...

The organism waves its bulbous ... Curved origami-like pleats make it possible for the single-celled protist Lacrymaria olor to extend its neck up to 30 times its body length in less than 30 ...

This study has revealed that an enzyme in E-coli bacteria breaks down the contents of cells into nutrients after death ...