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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The world's largest bacterium has been discovered amongst the mangroves ... All animals are eukaryotes, as well as plants, fungi and related organisms. As mostly single-celled organisms, prokaryotes ...

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).

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 ...