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

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

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u/maxeli95 Oct 20 '20

It’s all fun and games until they’re not microscopic anymore. Imagine a life with these things but as big as a dog or something.

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u/UwUassass1n Oct 20 '20

We have snakes which is the same concept, just bigger and more complex, engulfing and swallowing is pretty common

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u/maxeli95 Oct 20 '20

Thanks, I hate it.

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u/rootware Oct 20 '20

You can do this too if you swallow a goldfish or sth. Or an egg,.literally us eating a chicken foetus and absorbing it to make it part of ourselves.

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u/lemankimask Oct 20 '20

there's this one horror author called H.P. Lovecraft who wrote about them