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When Food Runs Short, This Single-Celled Organism Turns into Giant Cannibal to Survive

Euplotes gigatrox. Image credit: Ben Larson & Samuel Lord.

Euplotes gigatrox, a new species of ciliate collected from a seawater filtration system on the Caribbean Island of Curaçao, can transform into a cannibalistic ‘supergiant,’ raising new questions about the complexity of life at the microscopic scale.

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