Stentor is a trumpet-shaped, single-celled organism that can grow up to 2 mm long. In its native habitat of ponds or lakes, Stento r attaches its slender end (called the holdfast) to leaves or twigs ...

Life emerged on Earth some 3.8 billion years ago. The “primordial soup theory” proposes that chemicals floating in pools of water, in the presence of sunlight and electrical discharge, spontaneously ...

The conical configuration of these single-celled animals known as stentors is just one of many forms the shape-shifting organisms can take on. When they adopt this formation, the stentors’ golden, ...

Life’s leap from single-celled to multicellular organisms marks a pivotal moment in evolutionary history. This transformation laid the foundation for the complex life forms we see today. By studying ...