This is a single-celled predator, Dileptus. It's one of the most ferocious organisms on earth. The sweeping motion you see is a hunting behavior, and it's fantastic! . Dileptus has no eyes to see or follow its prey, so it needs to sense the presence of the victim somehow. So it sweeps its trunk-like proboscis to find a delicious treat. . But that's not all; there are harpoon-like structures on that proboscis that fired when the prey touches them. They puncture the prey and eject their toxic cont
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This is a single-celled predator, Dileptus. It's one of the most ferocious organisms on earth. The sweeping motion you see is a hunting behavior, and it's fantastic! . Dileptus has no eyes to see or follow its prey, so it needs to sense the presence of the victim somehow. So it sweeps its trunk-like proboscis to find a delicious treat. . But that's not all; there are harpoon-like structures on that proboscis that fired when the prey touches them. They puncture the prey and eject their toxic cont
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This is a Dileptus, and it’s biting off a chunk from another single-celled organism. . Dileptus are vicious hunters of the microscopic world, they have this elephant trunk-like structure called proboscis. And the proboscis armed with toxin ejecting tiny harpoons known as extrusomes. . The harpoons are fired upon contact with a possible prey, killing or at least damaging it. In this case, the prey was a large organism, a Spirostomum, and it got away by losing a chunk of its cell. . And then Dilep
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