Now I suppose that I shouldn’t be writing about bacteria around lunch time but this sucker is cool…..
It’s called Epulopiscium fischelsoni and was found in the gut of a surgeon fish in the Red Sea. Most scientists believed that bacteria couldn’t get very big because the critters don’t have a system for getting food inside very well (have to use diffusion for water and phagcytosis for food). So when they found this critter, they thought it was originally a protozoan instead of a bacteria. Epulopiscium is the only bacteria you can see without having to use a microscope and is about a million times larger in volume that regular old E. coli.
If you’re interested in reading more go here or here.
That’s your science lesson for today. Enjoy your lunch.
neumatikos 
Thanks, but I just lost my appetite.
Very cool, however…
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I hope you two find some other material for bedtime stories for your kids. Yikes! 😉
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Next time you post a picture, make sure to credit the person who took it……
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Sorry about that…the picture came from here:
http://www.mun.ca/biochem/courses/4103/topics/bacteria.html
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It took me 4 attempts before I was able to get that word typed into a google search. but congratulations. You both made the top of the list in your particular fields. I’m sure there’s deep meaning there.
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