What might be the oldest living thing on Earth lives on the side of a highway in Utah, and many people drive right through it without even noticing. It looks like a forest of aspen trees but is ...

Why live in a glass house? For diatoms — tiny ocean-dwelling organisms that live in exquisitely ornate glass cases — the benefit turns out to be enormous. In a paper published in the Sept. 13 issue of ...

Most forms of life cannot survive extreme environmental conditions, like excessive temperatures. Likewise, the significant majority of species on our planet have a set lifespan and cannot exist past a ...

A collection of over 40,000 trees in rural Utah is the world’s largest single organism, having all descended from a single seedling. But that’s not all: According to a team of researchers, the ...

pt. 1. Conceptual tools and methods. 1. The basics of ichnology ; 2. Taxonomy of trace fossils ; 3. Paleobiology of trace fossils ; 4. The ichnofacies model ; 5. The ...

What are Living Modified Organisms (LMOs)? Living Modified Organisms (LMOs) are organisms whose genetic material has been altered using modern biotechnology techniques, such as genetic engineering.

An ecologist from Utah State University is warning one of the world’s largest living things, a colony of genetically identical trees sharing a single root system, is in danger of breaking up into ...

A UAB research team has managed to track the behaviour of microplastics during their "journey" through the intestinal tract of a living organism and illustrate what happens along the way. The study, ...