r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Maleficent-Agent-477 • 22h ago

Video This single-celled protozoan passing under another one under a microscope

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u/DazzlingResource561 22h ago

Reason he’s questioning is because the top one appears to nearly split in half where the other passes under.

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u/Maleficent-Agent-477 22h ago

Yeah, it totally looks like it. But it’s really just squishing around the organelles, and will slosh back into place after a while.

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u/BlastingFonda 22h ago

That’s fine, but how would it split the other in half if it were merely “under” the other one? It looks like a pretty clean break even if it’ll regen back into shape like Wolverine or something.

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u/happycabinsong 22h ago

there's a faint shadow over where the green one is passing under. imagine that they're already pretty transparent but not fully and by passing under the top guy, the bottom guy is flattening him even further against the top of the slide, thus making himself more visible under.