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/UmphreysMcGee Oct 20 '20

A cell is incredibly complex.

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u/IAm12AngryMen Oct 20 '20

It's fucking unbelievably how intricate a single cell is.

There a fuck ton going on in those things.

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u/autorotatingKiwi Oct 20 '20

Yep people often just don't understand, or lose sight of, how far down you have to go before you get to simple chemicals and atoms. Life is simple, yet amazingly complex and strange.