This is a unicellular organism called Homalozoon, and it’s eating a microscopic multicellular animal. Doesn’t it look like a dirty, sentient sock choking on a snack. 🧦😂 . Homalozoon is a large single-celled organism that feeds on smaller microorganisms and even on multicellular animals like rotifers. When I stumbled upon this scene, it was already halfway through ingesting its rotifer meal. As Homalozoon swallows the rotifer, it wraps it in a bubble-like membrane that quickly becomes highly ac

This is a Pleuronema, a hard to record unicellular organism, it can "jump" away very fast when it's startled by something. In this clip, a tiny alga is bumping into Pleuronema and scaring the bejesus out of it. 😂 . Pleuronema feeds mostly on bacteria, and it runs away when it's disturbed to protect itself from predators, at least that's what I believe. Unfortunately, there are not many studies on them. . It's tough to record it with high magnification objectives because when it jumps, it gets o