Finding Giant Deep Sea Protists

[007r0cker007]

@urfuknass Like you would know whether they roll or somehow propel themselves through the water by just looking at pictures of them..

[Mocni]

makes you wonder what else is down there

[f11R2]

what is ths about

[ltzp2]

hol shit thats huge!

[jetsam50000]

This is really amazing.

[urfuknass]

They are not rolling. Somehow they are propelling themselves through the sediment.

[SGFVampwulf]

What I find utterly amazing is the fact that when you view videos such as this, the comments below feature nearly perfect grammar and spelling, and aren't filled with hate messages. I guess you learn things by having a video pulled up about protists to fake doing your homework and listen to Dio.

[jetsam50000]

Poop ballz

[deoxyribonucleus]

I am a microscopist and have serious doubts about this discovery. Nothing was mentioned about how exactly these so-called giant amoebas are moving other than rolling through the mud.

Also, they could have shown a dissection of one to show unicellular structure and organelles under a stereomicroscope such as the nucleus etc. Where are the pseudopodia? How exactly does it move through the mud?

[glowgoose]

The fine structure of this organism was described in an earlier paper by Andrew Gooday, in 2000 - there is no doubt that it is a Rhizarian protozoan. The molecular analysis totally confirms that.

As for the actual documentation fo movement, I completely agree - the direct evidence is still lacking, we do need to (and we will, provided luck with funding)

[glowgoose]

[sorry - hit the post button prematurely]

so, we will definitely make an attempt to document the rolling locomotion with a time-lapse camera. Until then , the issue is formally not settled, although with all the circumstantial evidence that we present in our paper in Current Biology, I am 95% sure that we guessed correctly.

[pocoapoco2]

It would be very interesting to make a time lapse video of their movement. I don't know how possible that would be.

[3n17y]

Мне кажется или биолог говорит с русским акцентом? :) Я писала новость, так что видела группу Матца. Я правильно транслитерирую: Миша Матц?

[lescha1983]

nowost dlja membrana ?

[3n17y]

ага :)

[glowgoose]

биолог здесь: не кажется. Миша Матц, правильно.

[ggab7768]

Unbelievable, look at that trail.

This is fantastic.

[oldbogus]

Protozoa the size of grapes! Amazing! Cool discovery.