Microbes that live inside livestock stomachs could be playing a more significant role in climate change than previously understood, according to new research.

Microplastics, tiny plastic particles pervasive in agricultural environments, interact with and disrupt the microbial ecosystem in the rumen—the first stomach chamber of cattle, reveals an ...

Although they may look like fancy tulips, the high-resolution 3D fluorescence images above actually show two different types of rumen ciliate. The single-celled organisms live in ruminant stomachs and ...

A newly discovered organelle may hold the key to how much methane cattle burp out. The organelle doesn’t belong to cows. It’s part of fuzzy single-celled protozoa called ciliates. The microbes live in ...