Sunday, October 30, 2011

Single celled animal as big as an apple

The discovery by the Scripps Institute of Oceanography at UC San Diego took a peek into the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean. There, they found "xenophyophores," single-celled creatures that can exceed four inches in diameter and can survive under the harshest conditions known to man. To be clear, that's almost a normal-sized Subway sandwich made from one cell. Hell, it is actually the size of a Subway sandwich, if they scrimp at all. dvice

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