Most animals require brains to run, jump or hop. The single-celled protozoan Euplotes eurystomus, however, achieves a scurrying walk using a simple, mechanical computer to coordinate its microscopic ...

Meet Euplotes gigatrox, a single-celled organism discovered on a Caribbean island that temporarily transforms into a predator, hunting and consuming its own relatives. Single-celled organisms aren't ...

In a new study, researchers from Italy examine the genes and proteins behind this organism's remarkable ability to cope with its extreme environment, which is not only unthinkably cold, but also ...

A newly discovered microbe has a strange Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde duality. Euplotes gigatrox is a tiny ciliate that's normally content to swim around serenely in seawater, swallowing bacteria. But ...

From an on-line source "http://www.nies.go.jp/chiiki1/protoz/morpho/euplotes.htm#Euplotes parawoodruffi" it states that "Type specimens; One slide of holotype (with ...

Scientists have for the first time documented a single-celled microbe, named Euplotes gigatrox, that undergoes a drastic transformation into a cannibalistic "supergiant" form. Discovered in a seawater ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A scanning electron microscope image of a supergiant Euplotes gigatrox cell. (Ben Larson/Samuel Lord) A newly discovered microbe ...

In Antarctic waters that would kill a person within minutes happily dwells a tiny, single-celled organism known as Euplotes focardii. In a new study, researchers from Italy's University of Camerino ...