Huge numbers of the organisms known as 'by-the-wind sailors' have been washing up on the West Coast.
An ancient organism believed to have died out 4 million years ago has been found near New Zealand.
The first ever 'semi-synthetic' micro-organism is very different from all other life on Earth.
Genome scientist J. Craig Venter believes that we will soon be able to design and 'print' organisms.
Incidents involving a fatal amoebic organism that dines on your brain are on the increase in the US.
Moss on the Hawaiin Islands is thought to be one of the oldest multicellular organisms on Earth.
Geologists have unearthed fossilized single cell organisms that lived over 3 billion years ago.
When Apollo 12 returned to Earth in 1969, microorganisms were found on one of the cameras.
One theory suggests that life on Earth developed from organisms that arrived here from the planet Mars.
A biotechnology company in Massachusetts claims to be able to create diesel from basic ingredients.
"The definition of life has just expanded" - NASA has discovered an organism on Earth based on arsenic.
Britain is launching a mission to search for signs of alien micro-organisms in the upper atmosphere.
The Pentagon are looking to invest millions of dollars in to developing synthetic organisms in a new project called BioDesign.
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One the of the world's most controversial biologists has claimed that his team is only a matter of months away from crea...