The incredibly weird lives of xenophyophores, giant single-celled ocean dwellers
Posted by staff / May 17, 2017
We generally think of single-celled animals as being teeny-weeny to the point of being invisible to the naked eye, but not so the xenophyophore.
This living creature — which can’t be classified as animal, mineral, or fungus — skirts the rules of single-celldom by containing many nuclei rather than a few. Did we mention they can grow to be twenty centimeters in diameter? And live in houses made of their own poop?
Learn more about how the ocean continues to amaze in this episode of SciShow.
Full story at YouTube.
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