Organellogenesis, where an endosymbiont is transformed into an organelle within the host, is not well understood. In a recent study, researchers identified two novel dinoflagellates containing relic ...

Scientists have used new genetic sequencing data to understand how an ancient organism that lived alongside the dinosaurs has evolved over millions of years. The effort has uncovered for the first ...

Dinoflagellates is not a word you hear every day of the week. In fact, many people probably get through their entire lives without ever coming in contact with the word. Yet, the dinoflagellates are a ...

What if I told you there’s a place where the water lights up blue when you touch it? It sounds like something out of a fairytale, but it’s just one of nature’s wonders. There are these things called ...

A method for rapidly screening biotoxins produced by algae could help speed up the discovery of useful compounds. Single-celled algae with a pair of hair-like appendages, dinoflagellates produce large ...

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, ...

Two new strains of plankton discovered off the coast of Japan offer a window into the process of organelle creation. Many algae and plants contain photosynthetic organelles called plastids that are ...

Star trails and dinoflagellate trails. Photo by Alex Cherney, from the video When you go outside at night, it’s easy to think that the big show is going on over ...

You may have seen them on your Instagram feed or on travel blogs — beaches lit up at night with a mystical blue-green glow. While these images may look otherworldly, tiny, bioluminescent organisms ...