Scientists at the University of Miami warn that the world's oceans are teeming with 'giant viruses', also known as giruses.

The scientific name for house flies has stayed the same since Linnaeus described them in 1758. Fun fact: If an insect is an actual fly, “fly” is written as a separate word. Like house fly or drone fly ...

While enrolled at the University of Leiden he published his famous Systema Naturae – a new way of classifying living organisms. Over the years, Linnaeus revised this classification system ...

We often say that the light leaves a person’s eyes when they die. But it turns out all living organisms, including humans, emit a literal glow that extinguishes after death, according to a new ...

However, it also didn’t fit any other known classification ... all multicellular organisms, possess cells with nuclei. Within the Eukaryote domain, living things are further categorized into ...

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Study fundamental biological concepts across various areas. You'll explore topics including the characteristics of living organisms, classification and taxonomy, cell structure, microbiology, genetics ...

But that’s not all: According to a team of researchers, the grove—collectively known as Pando—may also be the world’s oldest living organism. Though it consists of over 40,000 individual ...

Taxonomy, the scientific classification of groups (or taxa) of organisms, is an old discipline ... dedicated their lives to one subset of our living world and who have an invaluable, scientific ...

Additionally, its versatility allows for the analysis of cellular nanomotion in various applications beyond bacterial virulence classification. Detecting nanometer-scale oscillations in living ...

This classification system allows scientists to study plant ... These are single-celled organisms that have organelles and may have a cell wall and chloroplasts. Each living organism falls under eight ...