The organism also has unique characteristics usually associated with protists and amoebas, two different branches. This left researchers wondering where the microorganism fits into the tree of life.

The Five Kingdoms of Life The main aim of a taxonomy study is to assign organism an appropriate place within the systematic framework of classification and this framework is known as taxonomic ...

Most of the newer kingdoms have been found in extreme environments. Meyer and Schmidt used a novel molecular technique that extracts DNA from the soil to identify the organisms living there.

These organisms hail from one of the six kingdoms of life, including Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia. Each of these kingdoms uses a different methodology to ...

Cells are the basic building blocks of an organism. Scientists look at a creature’s cell to decide where to classify it. What are they looking for? Science Trek is available to stream on pbs.org ...

Canadian researchers have discovered a new kind of organism that's so different from other living things that it doesn't fit into the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom, or any other kingdom used ...

Carl Linneaus, the father of classification, proposed the plant and animal kingdoms back in the 17th century. Single-celled organisms were granted a kingdom in the 19th century and fungi gained one ...

It is so far removed from the organisms we know that researchers claim it belongs to a new base group, called a kingdom, on the tree of life. April 29, 2012, 11:18 PM UTC / Source: LiveScience ...

Talk about extended family: A single-celled organism in Norway has been called "mankind's furthest relative." It is so far removed from the organisms we know that researchers claim it belongs to a ...