Mono Lake, tucked in the Eastern Sierra, is no ordinary lake. Its eerie tufa towers and teeming swarms of brine shrimp and alkali flies make it a hotspot for life that thrives where others can’t. The ...

Globular colonies of the choanoflagellate B. monosierra seen under a microscope. As indicated by the 50-micron scale bar, these colonies are at the limit of what's visible to the naked eye. Mono Lake ...

A new study published in Science Advances reveals evidence of electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in choanoflagellates, the closest living relatives of animals. This elaborate example of ...

In the story of life on Earth, there have been countless species that have come and gone over the course of billions of years. Life evolved from the simplest of single-celled organisms to the ...

Mono Lake in the Eastern Sierra Nevada is known for its towering tufa formations, abundant brine shrimp and black clouds of alkali flies uniquely adapted to the salty, arsenic- and cyanide-laced water ...

Mono Lake is a beautiful but harsh environment, its salty and arsenic-laced water home to brine shrimp, alkali flies and little else. Scientists recently discovered an unsuspected resident, however, a ...