Nerds have a particular fascination for the Cthulhu mythos of horror novelist and all-around-weird-guy H. P. Lovecraft. In Lovecraft’s stories, Cthulhu was a tentacle-faced titanic god-monster who ...

Researchers studied in detail the strange protist Meteora sporadica, which swings its two lateral arms back and forth. The results of the study indicated that M. sporadica has a complex cytoskeleton ...

Sally, one of my lab mates, takes amazing videos of protists under the microscope (she posts these on her Instagram, pondlife_pondlife – go check it out). She showed me this video of a Dinoflagellate, ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Endomyxa comprises a diverse range of protists, including intracellular parasites that infect animals and plants, as well as free-living amoebae that do not rely on a host. Until now, ...

A study visualizing the fluid flow around 15 species of unicellular flagellated protists, which use their flagella to generate currents that enable feeding while avoiding detection by flow-sensing ...

Flagella are composed of over 20 unique proteins and represent a complex set of molecular machinery, working in unison to provide motility to many Gram-negative and positive species of bacteria, as ...

The forms of protists are as varied as they are ethereal, and all are invisible to the naked eye. For the past seven years, Kevin J. Carpenter has been researching and photographing some of these ...

The single flagellum of Trypanosoma brucei has been unveiled as a key player in determining cell polarity, division, size and shape. The flagellum, an appendage whose structure is conserved from ...

Mixotricha paradoxa is a curious protist that lives in the gut of the Australian termite, where it helps digest cellulose. But, that’s not what’s so cool about it. Mixotricha isn’t just a protist, ...

Newly discovered relatives of red algae may rewrite the evolutionary history of the Archaeplastida supergroup of eukaryotes, researchers reported July 17 in Nature. The protists Rhodelphis limneticus ...