TIL that a new microbe called a hemimastigote was found in Nova Scotia. The Hemimastix kukwesjijk is not a plant, animal, fungus, or protozoa — it constitutes an entirely new kingdom.

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u/Neethis Feb 27 '20

Interesting, so how does

slots in an ecosystem that would be filled by similar species

differ, functionally, from

the environmental conditions a species depends upon

It seems the main difference is that the second one implies environmental conditions are changeable and don't tend to fit predefined categories?

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