algae
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But in times of heat stress, algae can produce toxins, forcing their hosts to expel them.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
During droughts, algae blooms have turned waterways bright green, posing health threats for people and animals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Familiar examples include amoebas, various algae, and diatoms, which are microscopic organisms often found in aquatic environments.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
Think mushroom leather, spider-silk filaments, membranes of algae.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Her skin was as luminous white as the fields of algae.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
The alga, native to the Southern Ocean, starts as a single-cell that can transform into millimeter scale colonies.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 5, 2024
Blue-green algae is not actually an alga but rather a type of bacteria called cyanobacteria.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2023
This is the first recorded example of an alga practicing an aquatic equivalent to pollination.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 28, 2022
Myriam Valero, a population geneticist at CNRS, the French national research agency, has been studying the genetics of the red alga Gracilaria gracilis for many years in the tidepools of Europe.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 27, 2022
She is curious; she wants to know the difference between an alga and a lichen, a Diplodon char- ruanus and a Diplodon delodontus.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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