organism
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Although the identity of the organism that created the structures remains unknown, the fossils may represent an important stage in the evolution of one of nature's most remarkable navigational abilities.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
Researchers in Tristan Wagner's laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen wanted to understand how this organism performs nitrogen fixation under such extreme conditions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
The organism, Spirostomum ambiguum, relies on calcium ions and a specialized protein network arranged like a fishnet.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Runners up in the competition included videos of a roundworm encountering a single-celled organism and microscopic jellyfish larvae suspended in droplets of water.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
It is a long wait before a mutation makes an organism work better.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Those fossils came from organisms that lived during the older Ordovician period.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
By giving cells another way to survive chemical stress, the newly identified pathway may have provided an evolutionary advantage to early multicellular organisms.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
Natural-fiber garments shed microfibers that have been found in oceans and human lung tissue, and have harmed marine organisms in lab studies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Rodrigo Brasil Choueri, an associate professor and marine ecotoxicologist at the Federal University of São Paulo in Brazil, has been researching the impact of microfibers on marine organisms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
A population of organisms in the wild must have enough natural variation such that winners and losers can be picked.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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