Newly Discovered Microbe Turns Into a Cannibalistic ‘Supergiant’ : ScienceAlert

A newly discovered microbe has a strange Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde duality.

Euplotes gigatrox is a tiny ciliate that’s normally content to swim around serenely in seawater, swallowing bacteria.

But given enough time, a colony of clones will eventually be rocked by a rogue cell that grows into a…

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