This amoeba is engulfing another protist (heliozoan) via phagocytosis. In simplest terms, it’s using its body to eat, digest, and obtain nutrients. #MicroscopicMonday 🧫🔬 by MicrobialEcology | Science Channel

This is a single-celled organism with an ingested, and still alive, microscopic multicellular organism inside its cell. . The single-celled organism is a Stentor. They can grow a few millimeters in length, the largest one I’ve seen was almost as long as a grain of rice. They feed on all sorts of microscopic organisms, and this one swallowed a multicellular organism, a rotifer with organs, a simple brain, muscles, and even two little eyes. . Single-celled organisms can be incredibly complex witho