New organism discovered in a dirty pond
It just goes to show you, anyone can make a discovery as long as then look hard enough.
New life has been found in a British pond that survives in an unique way.
The single-celled organism Loxodes Rostrum survives by 'milking' oxygen from tiny green algae that live inside it.
The pond in the East Stoke Fen nature reserve in Dorset was studied for two months by scientists from Queen Mary University.
They found more than 100 single-celled species - including the never-seen-before lifeform.
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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.
