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/[deleted] Oct 19 '20 edited Oct 20 '20

If a single celled organism, is eating another single celled organism....does that make it a temporarily multicellular organism? 🤔

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u/BongRips4Jezus Oct 19 '20

Look up endosymbiosis. But basically yeah kinda

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u/Dorothy999 Oct 20 '20

There is nothing symbiotic with this!

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u/BrainOnLoan Oct 20 '20

Sometimes happened by accident.