Have you ever seen brown or green goo floating on a river or in the ocean? Or have you noticed how the walls of a fish tank sometimes turn green and slimy? These are all examples of algae—but there is ...

Rust-colored water is caused by algae which is also responsible for the blue glow known as bioluminescence -- but there is a ...

Independently evolved brown algae develop this way, too. Diethard Tautz is at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, 24306 Plön, Germany, and at the Stellenbosch Institute for ...

An arrow marks the independent origin of complex multicellularity in brown algae. The asterisks mark other lineages that evolved complex multicellularity. b, The life cycle of Fucus species. matSP ...

That brown, muddy water is due to a large algae bloom, expanding from the Santa Monica pier all the way to Marina del Rey. "We don't have blooms this intense that often," said UCLA Associate ...

Southern California beaches have recently experienced a "red tide" bloom of microscopic algae known as dinoflagellate, which give the ocean a rusty brown hue during the day ... associate director at ...

Complex multicellularity evolved independently in various eukaryotic lineages, including animals, plants, fungi, and algae. This evolutionary leap of going from one to many requires organisms to ...