Some algae have been hanging together rather than going it alone much longer than previously thought, according to new research. Ancestors of Volvox algae made the transition from being a ...

One of the most pivotal steps in evolution -- the transition from unicellular to multicellular organisms -- may not have required as much retooling as commonly believed, scientists have found. A ...

Ancestors of the alga Volvox made the transition from the solitary life of a single-celled organism to that of a multicellular colony much earlier than previously thought, according to new research.

Multicellularity is one of life’s great innovations. The abilityof many individual cells to work together as a single being is soprofound that scientists have regarded it as an immenselycomplicated ...

They say love teaches even asses to dance; well it seems the proverb holds true even for some microscopic organisms. Colonies of the common algae Volvox have been observed locked together in “waltz” ...

Volvox barberi are multicellular green algae that form colonies of 10,000 to 50,000 cells. In an abstract presented at the March 2018 meeting of the American Physical Society by Ravi Balasubramanian, ...

One of the most pivotal steps in evolution-the transition from unicellular to multicellular organisms-may not have required as much retooling as commonly believed, found a globe-spanning collaboration ...