Those giant white hair looking things. Each one is a **single cell** bacteria. It is the largest bacteria known to man with each cell growing up to 2mm. You can see them with the naked eye and they are even strong enough to be picked up.

They are also unique as they are the only bacteria where the dna has a nucleus like membrane around it.

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I thought that was the difference between prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and there were single-celled organisms with a nucleus... Did I misunderstand something?

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No that is almost always the case. Life is filled with exceptions though, and this is one of them.

Mammals are supposed to give live births, but a platypus lays eggs.

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