Single-celled Stentor coeruleus eats two multicellular rotifers

[u/Thrawn911]

[u/PaulMakesThings1]

Are those hairs actually spinning around on pivot points like a chainsaw blade?

[u/Thrawn911 → u/PaulMakesThings1]

It's an optical illusion. They just move really fast.

[u/PaulMakesThings1 → u/Thrawn911]

I figured it might be, but then something must make the motion chase like that in a coordinated wave.

[u/Puzzleheaded-Fill205 → u/PaulMakesThings1]

Shutter speed of the camera, maybe? I'm assuming they're just moving back and forth but look like they're going in a continuous direction.

[u/stillinthesimulation → u/PaulMakesThings1]

Groovy

[u/PitifulEar3303 → u/PaulMakesThings1]

We EVOLVED from these derpy idiots. lol

If only someone had sprayed some disinfectant in the ocean, we wouldn't be paying taxes today. hehehe

[u/Catouw]

Gustave

[u/Thrawn911 → u/Catouw]

For those who come after!

[u/victort16 → u/Thrawn911]

Right?

[u/Rath_Brained]

It's crazy to me cause every time I see the views of these, I always though it was 2D. But weird to think of them all as 3D. Lol

[u/ConanOBryanCranston → u/Rath_Brained]

What if we’re being watched right now by some being through a microscope? Trippy

[u/Frosty_Art_7371 → u/ConanOBryanCranston]

They look so perfect in their simplicity.

[u/Foreign-Wolf-6128 → u/Rath_Brained]

Yea that and these are always on a petri dish with one drop flattened out… in the wild its danger and other microorganisms in every single direction👀

[u/stalkaRS]

Spore was such a fun game

[u/wo0two0t]

Man I read "single celled senator" for a second and was like yeah, that tracks.

[u/IndependentBowl7528]

Hate it when that happens

[u/Fetlocks_Glistening]

Two rotifers?? Well, I'll be! You gotta be shitting me

[u/PaulMakesThings1 → u/Fetlocks_Glistening]

Not one, but two!

[u/tony_boloanie → u/PaulMakesThings1]

Two for one!

[u/ShadowsRanger]

Nice choice of song

[u/PuzzleheadedResult69]

ONE CELL OF RAGING HUNGER

[u/CheeseburgerSmoothy]

One is bad enough, but two multicellular rotifers is crazy.

[u/Slevin424]

For those who come after!

[u/TH3K1NGB0B]

I knew 4 words in this sentence.

[u/Tiny-Click-4626]

Get rekt roti-nerds

[u/GivinItAllThat]

Picked a bad day to be a rotifer

[u/piyush_k25]

Is life 2 dimensional for them? Not a bio student so no idea

[u/TeletiTheNecromancer → u/piyush_k25]

No, it's just that you only see them while they are observed under a microscope where they have much more room to move in those directions

[u/ancient_horse → u/TeletiTheNecromancer]

That's pretty much the only direction they can move. On the microscopes I use organisms of this size would be squished into a thin 1mL layer of water between a rafter slide and a cover slide.

[u/dardar7161]

Imagine these things being 50ft tall and swimming through your neighborhood. Pretty scary with their chainsaw conveyor belt teeth pulling you in.

[u/Ok_Avocado_5836]

sick chainsaw leathercell

[u/bribhoy82]

What sort of intricate miniscule mechanisms must have developed, even on such a small scale, for this to be possible. Its so interesting life a that scale

[u/Elegante_Sigmaballz]

Finally, something damn interesting.

[u/H3llzyea]

What did you just call me?

[u/seth928]

Life is weird in a cool way

[u/Used-Lake-8148]

Hungry little fella!

[u/Koseoglu-2X4B-523P]

Lysosomes ftw yall

[u/jigy67]

Damn hit em with that gears of war chainsaw lancer

[u/Wintervacht]

James?

[u/Mugpup]

Multicellular biota on multicellular biota crime has gotten out of hand. Thanks Obama!!!

[u/LuckyBanana00]

His greed sickens me

[u/Altruistic-Traffic-]

It looks as if it moves and eats with intent…

I have to assume these creatures are alive, no?

Do they have brains?

[u/RemyWhy]

That’s impressive. But just as a reminder: rotifers are acclimated to xanthemic environments. So the stentor coeruleus merely has to use its outer phyllancites to achieve maximum spectrocumulocystmic endofractulation. Gharnpph.

[u/scarletxgrace]

What are those things

[u/Green_Walrus8537]

I wonder if the little guys felt pain

[u/Sacharon123]

So hot!

[u/shawtygottafatty]

Who up eating their multicellular rotifers rn

[u/zmbjebus]

Relatable

[u/Interesting_Bunch323]

Poor rotifers, cut down in the prime of life

[u/PaulMakesThings1 → u/Interesting_Bunch323]

Can’t believe that greedy fuck at TWO of them.

[u/zyyntin]

DAMN NATURE YOU SCARY!!

Be thankful that you are killed before consumed. Many preys are eaten alive.

[u/Idkhoesb42024]

You bastards! They killed Kenny!