Scientists have discovered the world’s largest bacterium in a Caribbean mangrove swamp. Although most bacteria are microscopic, Thiomargarita magnifica is the size of a human eyelash and can be seen ...

On sunken leaves in the waters of a Caribbean mangrove swamp, researchers discovered a bacterium that challenges the prevailing view of bacterial cell size; counter to the notion that microbes are ...

On sunken leaves in the waters of a Caribbean mangrove swamp, researchers discovered a bacterium that challenges the prevailing view of bacterial cell size; counter to the notion that microbes are ...

Clinging to sunken debris in shallow, marine mangrove forests in the French Caribbean, tiny thread-like organisms—perfectly visible to the naked eye—have earned the title of the largest bacteria ever ...

These are bacteria like you’ve never seen before — likely because, until now, all known bacteria could only be seen using a powerful compound microscope. A newly discovered bacterium that is large ...

While bacteria tend to have free-floating DNA, Ca. T. magnifica appears to have more than half a million copies of its genome bundled up into numerous membrane-bound compartments that the researchers ...

CNN — These are bacteria like you've never seen before -- likely because, until now, all known bacteria could only be seen using a powerful compound microscope. A newly discovered bacterium that is ...