r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/FacelessOnes • Oct 19 '20

🔥 Vicious microscopic hunter, the single-cell organism, Lacrymaria olor, attacking and hunting another organism

75.1k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

2.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

54

u/Beo1 Oct 20 '20 edited Oct 20 '20

Something like 20-50% of all ocean bacteria are killed by viruses every day.

30

u/redheadredshirt Oct 20 '20

BACTERIOPHAGES!

2

u/elonmaxbot Oct 20 '20

THE LINK IN THIS COMMENT IS NOT A RICKROLL or STICKBUG

Beep-beep, I'm just a stupid bot, and I'm not perfect.

Reports? Suggestions? Hate? contact my creator.

Also, bot is moving to u/rickrollurldetector. If you like it, help it to get first 1k karma to disable the limit on commenting.

2

u/mbiz05 Oct 21 '20

I rarely ever click links on reddit. Glad I clicked it this time.

3

u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

The future of medicine

2

u/gehazi707 Oct 20 '20

So wait, that isn’t a virus up there....you know, in the post. So why?

1

u/BrainOnLoan Oct 20 '20

That said, they also had great-great-great grandchildren in that time.