Bacteria typically live out their teeny-tiny lives in the microscopic realm, but now scientists have found a gargantuan one the size and shape of a human eyelash. The new find is "by far the largest ...

The mangroves of the Caribbean bristle with life. White herons spear fish with their bills and black and red crabs skitter over the sprawling, spidery tree roots. And then there are the thin, white ...

Researchers have found that antibiotic-resistant bacteria are fatter and shorter than their antibiotic-sensitive parental strains, and that these morphological changes correlate with changes in the ...

A team of researchers have discovered a bacteria that has broken the theoretical limits of how big bacteria can grow. The bacteria was found swimming in the French Caribbean archipelago of Guadeloupe, ...

Humans throughout history have invented a variety of ways to fight back against troublesome bacteria. But bacteria live in a ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American We all know that eukaryotes are bigger than ...