Antarctica hides much more than an icy expanse. Beneath miles (kilometers) of ice, a 500-million-year-old mountain range is ...

The freezer in the laboratory of Professor of Mycorrhizal Studies Leho Tedersoo contains DNA samples of tens of thousands of ...

The colorful pigment extracted from the lac insect may actually be produced by a symbiotic yeast-like organism living inside ...

Jurassic-era blue-stain fungi fossils found in China push their origin back 80 million years. These fungi pierced wood using ...

Discover how a 55-million-year-old frog fossil is reshaping our understanding of Australia's evolutionary history.

Protists (eukaryotes, excluding animals, land plants, and fungi) comprise the bulk of the eukaryotic phylogenetic tree, making their ...

Trillions of bacteria, fungi, viruses and single-celled organisms travel the globe high in the atmosphere. Scientists are ...