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. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience ...

Scientists now believe there are many more kingdoms, including fungi and a number of types of single-celled organisms. The number of kingdoms was estimated to be about 30 before the University of ...

Lynn Margulis, Whittaker's Five Kingdoms of Organisms: Minor Revisions Suggested by Considerations of the Origin of Mitosis, Evolution, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Mar., 1971), pp. 242-245 Free online reading for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.