Instead, they rely largely on energy produced by algae ... life that depends on them." More information: Ruiqi Li et al, Photosymbiosis shaped animal genome architecture and gene evolution as ...

The earliest evidence of life comes from the southwestern coast ... chains of microbes that look exactly like living blue-green algae (otherwise known as cyanobacteria). For billions of years ...

The oldest multicellular algae fossil dates to 1,200 mya ... Trace fossils of wormlike creatures suggest complex multicellular life evolved as far back as 900 mya. More extensive Precambrian ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder and timber. All this diversity emerged from an algal ancestor that ...

Marine biologists say sea life off the SoCal coast is in danger of being wiped out, and they say more frequent toxic algae ...

The life of an ice alga Ice algae are small single celled organisms. Elongated, brownish and ellipse shaped. They thrive on ice surfaces around the world. They have been found on the Greenland ice ...