Giant amoebas found rolling on sea floor

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http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/2374/giant-grape-amoebas-found-rolling-seafloor

SYDNEY: Using a research submarine, marine biologists in the Bahamas have discovered large numbers of an unknown, grape-sized, single-celled animal slowly rolling across the sea floor.

" huge for a single cell. If I had cells that big I'd be six kilometres tall and weigh three trillion kilograms," said Sönke Johnsen, a biologist at Duke University in North Carolina, and the expedition's chief scientist.

Single-celled animals, known as protists, are usually the size of a pin-head or much smaller, but the size of this "sea-grape" isn't the most unusual thing about it.

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[DS1]

1. comma WalMart

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2. Sea pearls are prettier single-cell critters.

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3. That IS pretty!

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4. they look like little snowballs rolling uphill. n/t

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5. Ooooh

neat!

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6. Whoa! Freaky.

I love his kind of stuff.