The film explores the evolution of multi-celled animals, particularly sponges, from single-celled organisms like amoebas. It explains that the transition to multi-cellularity was driven by the ...

Animals, from worms and sponges to jellyfish and whales, contain anywhere from a few thousand to tens of trillions of nearly genetically identical cells. Depending on the organism, these cells arrange ...

Researchers have spotted how specific proteins within the chromosomes of roundworms enable their offspring to produce specialized cells generations later, a startling finding that upends classical ...