Extremely large is an understatement.
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“We have just scratched the surface, but we’ve been very dogmatic,” he said.
That dogma began cracking in the 1990s. Microbiologists found that some bacteria have independently evolved compartments of their own. They also discovered species that were visible to the naked eye. Epulopiscium fishelsoni, for example, came to light in 1993. Living inside surgeonfish, the bacteria grows to 600 microns long — larger than a grain of salt.
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