These are some of my favorite giant single-celled organisms, Stentor coeruleus. And one of them is about to swallow a multicellular animal alive, the tiny animal even has a simple brain, and will have quite a bit of time before slowly gets melted by the digestive enzymes inside the Stentor. . Stentor coeruleus are big and green-bluish in color, and they are picky eaters. They like to eat some organisms while they don't like eating others, until you starve them, and then they eat anything. Just l

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The hypnotizing movement of Stentor sp. #microscopy #ciliate | Science into Images