This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. You might have played the game called "animal, vegetable, mineral". One player thinks of an object or organism and ...

A new study shows that resilient and remarkably diverse populations of organisms can persist in the soil despite harsh and ...

The history of life stretches back untold eons. Today, there is a staggering array of organisms on Earth, with more species being discovered every year. The complexity of life, from the smallest ...

Some of the earliest complex organisms on Earth -- possibly some of the earliest animals to exist -- got big not to compete for food, but to spread their offspring as far as possible. Some of the ...