Whether it's a sea slug that looks like Shaun the Sheep that ... "It represents a biologically unique condition for ...

We often think of animals using oxygen and glucose for cellular respiration and producing carbon dioxide. Similarly, we might think of plants using carbon dioxide and sunlight for photosynthesis and ...

A group of diatom species belonging to the Nitzschia genus gave up on photosynthesis and now get their carbon straight from their environment, thanks to a bacterial gene picked up by an ancestor.

Unlike plants, animals can’t carry out photosynthesis to generate our own oxygen, yet our brains rely on oxygen to make the massive amounts of energy needed to function. In a study published today ...

This cleaning service is becoming increasingly important as warming waters accelerate algal growth, which can smother seagrass and inhibit photosynthesis ... this tiny slug is performing an ...