organisms

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The Ediacaran period occurred before the Cambrian explosion, a major evolutionary turning point when rising oxygen levels helped complex organisms diversify rapidly across Earth's oceans.

From Science Daily • May 12, 2026

This work argues that even if stars and heavy elements still formed, life might remain impossible if liquids could not flow properly inside organisms.

From Science Daily • May 8, 2026

If those constants were even slightly different, water, blood, and other life-supporting fluids could behave so differently that complex organisms might never have emerged at all.

From Science Daily • May 8, 2026

"They provide food for many other organisms including otters and bitterns."

From BBC • May 7, 2026

But what I gather from what Mother writes me now is that she works night and day wearing a horrid white coat in some dreary big-deal place in Atlanta where they study disease organisms.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver