In a corner of a national park where the ground steams and the air smells faintly of sulfur, scientists have stumbled on a ...

At a steaming creek in California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park, a tiny amoeba just raised the heat ceiling for complex ...

This tiny critter is basically almost indestructible. The post Scientists Impressed by “Fire Amoeba” That Can Survive ...

It was thought that complex cells couldn’t survive above a certain temperature, but a tiny amoeba has proven that assumption ...

Scientists have discovered a “fire amoeba” capable of surviving temperatures typically impossible for complex life.

Vibrio vulnificus bacteria, found in warm coastal waters, have caused deaths in North Carolina and Florida. Naegleria fowleri, known as the "brain-eating amoeba," lives in freshwater and can cause ...