Researchers from the Earlham Institute, in collaboration with the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, have discovered three previously unrecognized lineages of the protist Bodo, each ...

A research submersible operating off the coast of northeast Brazil has captured footage of giant larvaceans constructing and discarding mucus houses exceeding one meter in size, while also documenting ...

Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host their own microbiomes. In new research published this week in Cell Host & ...

Biomaterials with extraordinary properties, such as spider silk, have so far been known primarily from animals. Researchers at the University of Salzburg in Austria have now deciphered a surprising ...

Benthic foraminifera are single-celled marine protists that inhabit the seabed and build calcareous or agglutinated tests. Their widespread distribution and rapid environmental sensitivity make them ...

A new study shows that multicelled organisms like the metazoan daphnia (pictured) require a tenfold increase in energy compared with protists for their growth, maintenance and survival. The high cost ...