organisms
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Corals are marine invertebrates made up of hundreds to thousands of tiny, soft-bodied organisms called polyps.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Uddin's photographs explore the miniature world of slime moulds, organisms that can be barely visible to the naked eye and whose fruiting structures are just one to two millimetres high.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
How different species developed and why life on Earth diversified from those single-cell organisms is often surprising and consistently engaging.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
This mechanism offers a possible explanation for how evolution can produce new biological features without disrupting the essential functions organisms need to survive.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
Perhaps if one less dragonfly had drowned in the Carboniferous swamps, the intelligent organisms on our planet today would have feathers and teach their young in rookeries.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
