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 ...

Surveying the body sizes of Earth's living organisms, researchers found that the planet's biomass -- the material that makes up all living organisms -- is concentrated in organisms at either end of ...

Editor's Note: This article was first published at ScienceNordic. Scientists are increasingly interested in the prospect of solving a range of fundamental problems facing our civilisation by designing ...

Life comes in all shapes in sizes, but some sizes are more popular than others, new research has found. A survey of body sizes of all Earth's living organisms has uncovered an unexpected pattern.

Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have been like. As an organism that appeared to grow up through Earth’s crust in ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

While it may be defined as a single organism, Pando is anything but one—sustaining an entire world under its canopy. Here’s how it works. When you think of the world’s largest organism, you might ...