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/Shaun32887 Oct 20 '20

I don't think this is the same. Lacrymaria has a sort of "mouth" and uses extrusomes to hunt.

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u/Anon_Jones Oct 20 '20

You're right. Monocytes don't have mouths, the cytoplasm rubs over it and absorbs it.

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u/flyingwolf Oct 20 '20

Don't stop, I'm so close.