Comments on: Grape-Sized Amoeba Raises Questions About Origins of Animal Life

By: MarkmBha

MarkmBha — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:19:00 +0000

Life on Earth was around almost 2 billion years ago?
W O W !

By: investor on line

investor on line — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:52:43 +0000

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By: Michael Winner

Michael Winner — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 02:46:15 +0000

ah yes chaps.Good points but we all know the only thing that matters is,how edible is it?

By: noodlyjames

noodlyjames — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:21:44 +0000

Gromia sphaerica-

“Giant Deep-Sea Protist Produces Bilaterian-like Traces”. Current Biology (Elsevier Ltd)

Very good read for a research paper.

By: noodlyjames

noodlyjames — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:11:39 +0000

Neat.

By: harold

harold — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:27:59 +0000

Do these have a single nucleus, or is it a multi-nucleated cell?

By: HP

HP — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 05:41:25 +0000

One supposes, @ivan, that it would depend on how hard you poke it. The real question is how much sulfur and/or ammonia is sequestered in the cell chemistry. A dozen or so grape-sized cells, without too much sulfur or ammonia, would make a nice omelet.

(The same could be said, of course, for tetrapod stem cells. I, for one, welcome our future bovine omelets. Can you imagine a cow’s egg omelet with green peppers, onions, and jack cheese? Yum.)

By: Ivan

Ivan — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:57:29 +0000

@emily
It is not known that the largest cell on earth are ostrich eggs… because they’re not the largest cells on earth. A simple google search would tell you about enormous animals, like the giant squid, that have nerve cells that are about 80 times the volume of an ostrich egg.. therefore… much larger than an ostrich egg.

As for this article, the wonder is not in finding a humongous, grape-sized cell, there are already plenty of cells larger than that. The awe is in finding a single celled ORGANISM of that size.

@neoshogun

I actually want to poke it too. I wonder if it’ll pop like a cytoplasm filled balloon or if it would be just like jelly and spring right back into shape.

By: Brian Bridson

Brian Bridson — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 03:11:56 +0000

This is huge!

By: MAXwoot

MAXwoot — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:01:36 +0000

actually you helix are incorrect, it is a single cell before the male fertilizes the egg then the large cell breaks up into smaller cells that specialize in different thing and the process is repeated until you have a whole baby bird. gosh didnt you ever go to seventh grade XD. and very interesting find quite peculiar