Warnowiid. Just sayin’.
— Billy Wright
SCIENTISTS STUDYING MICROSCOPIC LIFE IN SEAWATER have found, what we laypeople might call, a tiny floating eyeball. Just as with our own eyes, the creature is fitted with a lens, cornea and retina. But what’s remarkable is that it’s all inside the one cell.
Scientists from the University of British Columbia (UBC) had their research on the ‘Warnowiid’ published last month in Nature.
“It’s an amazingly complex structure for a single-celled organism to have evolved,” said lead author Greg Gavelis, a zoology PhD student at UBC, speaking about the warnowiid.
“It contains a collection of sub-cellular organelles that look very much like the lens, cornea, iris and retina of multicellular eyes found in humans and other larger animals.”
The scientists still aren’t entirely sure what the eye is used for. Without the billions of very purposeful cells found in our own eyes, the warnowiid would have…
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And why hasn’t my school mentioned anything about this if this is already from 2015?! My professors are always full of praise for Nature…but so, yeah 😀 this is absolutely super duper awesomesauce!
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Because it would make things more interesting..and that’s a no-no!!!
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*amiba
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An amazing knowledge about warnowiid.still now I think dt having one cell creature is Amiga.nice post.
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I am saving this for my soon to be 12 year old (AKA future marine biologist). He wants to study deep sea when he grows up, so you can imagine all of the odd life out there fascinates him! This will be perfect discussion later 🙂
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“Happy to be of service, ma’am!”
I think the original article was a Natl. Geo. one…they always have such phenomenal articles, studies and stories!! It would be worth a good Google search for you and your boy to follow up, though. Have fun with it!
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He has a Nat Geo account that came with his subscription so I will be sure to pass that along ❤
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I still love reading and researching about all the amazing things in life, but it was so much more fun when I could share it with my kids, while it was so new to them 😦 My youngest boys still have a sense of awe about it all, though, and they’re 25 and 30!
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I hope my children maintain the enthusiasm and curiosity as they grow!
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Wonderful, Pearl!
Another reminder that big brother is always watching…. eyes are everywhere.
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It’s amazing what strange and eetie creatures can be found in the deep oceans…but that mame: “Warnowiid”! I just love it…it almost sounds Welsh!!!😆
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…but yeah, that bit of prose at the end was pretty good. Kind of Twilight Zone-ish!
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