Journey to the Microcosmos | Can This Baby Rotifer Escape Before It’s Eaten Alive? @journeytomicro | Uploaded June 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
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This Loxodes magnus is large, so large that it was able to eat a rotifer, those funny animals we often see getting bullied by their single-celled neighbors. Except, that rotifer is moving. It’s alive, twisting and turning inside of the food vacuole it’s been stuffed into, and starting to fight back.

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