These “walking sharks” can lay eggs without spending extra energy, rewriting what scientists thought they knew about reproduction.

Once a seed germinates, it is committed to one location. Plants are sessile—stuck where they started out—forced to cope with ...

Biologists like to say that reproduction is the ultimate investment, a costly gamble that shapes everything from lifespan to ...

The findings shed new light on human reproduction and suggest pathways for developing treatments to lower the risk of ...

An international team of researchers led by Hokkaido University has characterized the unique mechanics that enable Arcella, a shelled, single-celled amoeba, to move skillfully across different ...

While on a sampling trip in California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park, researchers stopped to sample a rather boring stream on their hike to Boiling Springs Lake. But when they incubated that water ...

This cell likes it hot. A tiny, single-celled amoeba that can thrive at temperatures that kill all other known complex life — organisms whose cells contain a nucleus and internal structures — has been ...

Naegleria fowleri, commonly called the brain-eating amoeba, is a rare but serious threat in warm freshwater during hot months. The amoeba enters through the nose and travels to the brain, causing a ...

Missouri health officials confirm the resident who contracted a case of what is commonly known as the "brain-eating" amoeba has died.That individual had been water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks ...

A Missouri adult is hospitalized with a rare brain infection caused by the Naegleria fowleri amoeba, likely contracted while water skiing. Two Kansas children died from the same amoeba in 2011 and ...

A Missouri man’s lake outing has ended in tragedy. Local health officials announced this week that a resident died from a rare but nearly always fatal brain amoeba infection likely caught while water ...

MISSOURI, USA — Missouri health officials on Wednesday confirmed that a patient who contracted a rare infection from a brain-eating amoeba at the Lake of the Ozarks has died. The patient died at a St.