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Violent Microbial World Gatling Gun Plankton

 
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Violent Microbial World Gatling Gun Plankton
Zooplankton are armed to the teeth with spears and ballistic weapons, electron photography shows.

An international team of researchers has captured the crispest images to date of the arsenals microbes employ to hack away at their fellows — and it’s seriously impressive, if a bit small. The tiny combatants pack spears, wicked harpoons, and even something that looks suspiciously similar to a bug-sized 15-barreled Gatling gun.

The second phase of the attack is the harpooning itself. A weaponized organelle called nematocyst pierces the incapacitated prey and hooks it with a stylet and then it’s dinner time.


Another dinoflagellate the team worked with, a wild-caught Nematodinium, shows something strikingly similar to a ballistic weapon. The cell is topped with a radial structure which crowns a nematocyst with 11 to 15 ‘barrels’. The organelle rings one side of the Nematodinium’s outer membrane, making it resemble a Gatling gun.

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Re: Violent Microbial World Gatling Gun Plankton
The Gatling gun fire up to 200-1500 rounds per minute is one of the best-known early rapid-fire spring loaded, hand cranked weapons, and a forerunner of the modern machine gun and rotary cannon. Invented by Richard Gatling, it saw occasional use by the Union forces during the American Civil War in the 1860s, which was the first time it was employed in combat. (wikipedia the free encyclopedia)

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