We usually think of bacteria as organisms so ... to thousands of cells. But the newfound bacteria, which is roughly the shape and the size of an eyelash, is a single bacterial cell.

The animals are about four inches (ten centimeters) long—among the largest single-celled organisms known to exist. The creatures were discovered at depths of 6.6 miles (10.6 kilometers).

Photo: J Zapell / Wikimedia Commons A collection of over 40,000 trees in rural Utah is the world’s largest single ... of a cell. These random mutations occur over the course of an organism ...

Scientists have discovered the organism with the largest known genome ... Crammed inside every single living cell is the entire blueprint for building that organism. As such, DNA is an incredibly ...

By Jack Tamisiea For a creature made up of only a single cell, the stentor is a giant. This trumpet-shaped organism is among the largest unicellular organisms, stretching as long as a sharpened ...

Amid this, there are various unicellular organisms which exist. These organisms have a single cell, which contaians the DNA, cytoplasm and organelles required for survival. All major life ...

Every human, bird, tree, and flower can trace its ancestry across a few billion years back to microscopic, single-celled organisms such ... as visible blobs, the largest of which were a millimeter ...