The findings, published Jan. 4 in the journal Communications Biology, offer clues about how such evolution may have contributed to the giant clam’s size. “Giant clams are keystone species in many ...

To buy reefs a little extra time, scientists are breeding both algae and corals to withstand more heat, speeding up the natural process of evolution. But with oceans heating up more rapidly than ...

With a team of scientists from the UK and Canada, we traced the evolution of purple algae back hundreds of millions of years and our findings challenge a key idea about how evolution works. Though ...

For the first time in at least a billion years, two lifeforms have merged into a single organism. The process, called primary endosymbiosis, has only happened twice in the history of the Earth ...

The algae Braarudosphaera bigelowii has been found to have absorbed a cyanobacteria called UCYN-A, which may be a huge step forward for evolution Tyler Coale 2 / 4 ...

These algae can turn sunlight into sugar through photosynthesis, providing nutrients for the clams. "It's like the algae are seeds, and a tree grows out of the clam's stomach," Li said.

Despite this, glacier algae have dramatic effects across vast ice fields when liquid water forms on glacier surfaces. In 2016, on the Greenland ice sheet , algal growth led to an additional 4,400 ...

How tiny algae shaped the evolution of giant clams. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 01 / 250127161932.htm. University of Colorado at Boulder.

With a team of scientists from the UK and Canada, we traced the evolution of purple algae back hundreds of millions of years and our findings challenge a key idea about how evolution works. Though ...

How tiny algae shaped the evolution of giant clams. University of Colorado at Boulder. Journal Communications Biology DOI 10.1038/s42003-024-07423-8 ...