6 of the Biggest Single-Celled Organisms

When you picture a single cell, you probably imagine something super tiny that you had to look at through a microscope. But, there are some huge exceptions to this rule. And we really do mean huge.

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Stentor coeruleus
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25202864/
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-47701-8
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.12.057
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0003-9365(83)80036-0
Gromia sphaerica
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0967-0645(99)00100-9
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2008.10.028
https://doi.org/10.1186/s41200-019-0183-4
Spiculosiphon oceana
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26312358/
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2018.02.015
Valonia ventricosa
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1116-4_19
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1958.0011
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1937.0011
https://doi.org/10.1038/225760a0
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1932.0005
Acetabularia
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0074-7696(08)61042-6
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25964794/
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.arplant.49.1.173
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46169-9_1
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-0436.1979.tb01022.x
https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican1166-118
Caulerpa
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1004900
https://doi.org/10.2306/scienceasia1513-1874.2006.32(s1).057
https://doi.org/10.1086/702758
https://doi.org/10.2307/1311764
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26464789/

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https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/37102959
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