An organism living in ocean muck offers clues to the origins of the complex cells of all animals and plants.
A scanning electron microscopy image of Prometheoarchaeum syntrophicum, a microbe scientists found at the bottom of the ocean. It is closely linked to more complex life. Credit...Hiroyuki Imachi, Masaru K. Nobu and JAMSTEC
By Carl Zimmer
A bizarre tentacled microbe discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean may help explain the origins of complex life on this planethttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/s...gtype=Homepage