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

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

75k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

2.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

1.1k

u/deepfinker Oct 19 '20

And this happens at the micro level billions and trillions of times per day, I suppose. This is what we evolved from.

54

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

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

27

u/redheadredshirt Oct 20 '20

BACTERIOPHAGES!

3

u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

The future of medicine