The world’s biggest bacterium found in Caribbean mangrove swamp, visible to the naked eye

As someone whose only ever seen bacteria under a microscope in a high school biology class, this is super cool. Really makes you realize how little we really know about our world, even before you start diving deep into the ocean.

More sources:

• https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2022/06/23/giant-bacteria-found-in-guadeloupe-mangroves-challenge-traditional-concepts/
• https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/science/giant-bacterium.html
• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01757-1
• https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abb3634