The 550-million-year-old Quaestio simpsonorum is the first fossil to show a definitive left-right asymmetry, an important ...

Under the microscope, one water-filled petri dish was teeming with round, reddish, immobile blobs — what vampyrellids look like after feeding. But nearby algae lacked telltale feeding holes.

A case of a rare brain-eating amoeba has been confirmed in Florida, according to health officials in the US state. The Florida Department of Health (DOH) said one person in Hillsborough County had ...

With winter weather settling in, it's no surprise that people are already suffering from irritating colds and blocked noses. Struggling to breathe properly can really wipe you out, but people are ...

This amoeba, a single-celled organism, acquires energy by engulfing nutrients in the form of a yeast cell (red). Through a process called phagocytosis, the amoeba encloses the yeast cell with its ...

A sense of calm pervades the Maadankaavu pond, hidden away in the greenery near a bylane at Maruthikkunnu in Navaikulam ...

An Indian teenager is now among a handful of people in the world to survive a rare brain-eating amoeba, partly due to his father coming across a public awareness campaign on social media.

While the size of Mimivirus certainly stretches our ... they argue that some genes in Mimivirus may have been acquired from the amoeba host of Mimivirus. Other Mimivirus genes may have been ...

If you’re in the market for a new car, it’s important to understand what engine size means and how it affects a car’s performance and economy. Engine size, also referred to as ‘engine ...

Space Amoeba is one of those 70s-era monsters that ... big blob that infects and mutates a selection of creatures to Kaiju ...

And while the sample size is still pretty small ... “When they started running the amoeba defense back in the day, people called Tarkanian crazy. He ended up winning NCAA titles with it.

Is this the week Tumwater locks up the No. 1 seed (and homefield advantage) throughout the postseason in Class 2A?