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When Algae Learned to Hunt

You probably don’t consider algae to be super aggressive, but 66 million years ago had to turn to murder in order to survive.

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201030142129.htm
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/44/eabc9123
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6281475/
https://bio.biologists.org/content/8/2/bio036590
https://microbiologysociety.org/publication/past-issues/oceans/article/comment-mixotrophic-plankton-the-perfect-beasts-of-our-oceans.html
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-marine-010816-060617

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haptophyta_cell_scheme.svg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flagellum_(PSF).png
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phytoplankton_types.jpg

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