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Old 21-November-2008, 09:32 AM
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Default GRAPE Sized Amoebas?

Okay, they're a distant relative, but they're still a single celled organsim.
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Slowly rolling across the ocean floor, a humble single-celled creature is poised to revolutionize our understanding of how complex life evolved on Earth.

A distant relative of microscopic amoebas, the grape-sized Gromia sphaerica was discovered once before, lying motionless at the bottom of the Arabian Sea. But when Mikhail Matz of the University of Texas at Austin and a group of researchers stumbled across a group of G. sphaerica off the coast of the Bahamas, the creatures were leaving trails behind them up to 50 centimeters (20 inches) long in the mud.
"There are things on heaven and earth undreampt of in your philosophy" indeed. That this species could be almost 2 billion years old has my jaw on the floor.
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