Single Cell as Big as Your Fist

I'm constantly amazed at what biologists find in the deep sea. Of all the scientific findings that make us rethink all we think we know, deep sea biology tops that list.
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Single Cell Organisms as Big as Your Fist


In recent decades, deep sea researchers have upended our notions of what can survive at some of the deepest submerged places on Earth, revealing that a panoply of life thrives around seafloor vents and elsewhere in the depths. So we probably shouldn’t be surprised that researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have found giant amoebas living at unprecedented depths in the far reaches of the Mariana Trench. What is surprising is that these single-celled organisms are four inches across... Read the rest of the article on PopSci