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China scientists discover giant viruses in the deepest place on Earth:
The first known batch of viruses retrieved from the deepest point in the Mariana Trench includes giant species bigger than some bacterium, according to a research team in Shanghai.
The many legends of giant sea creatures have been largely debunked because of the challenges to large, complex life forms at the greatest ocean depths.
But the researchers discovered several giant viral species, including mimiviruses – which typically use amoeba as their hosts – in sediments taken from a seabed nearly 11,000 metres (36,000 feet) below sea level at Challenger Deep.
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(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday August 01 2021, @03:21AM
Certain amoeba can infect the human brain, tho that's not where they'd normally live.
https://www.livescience.com/22626-brain-eating-amoeba-neti-pots.html [livescience.com]
Occurs to me to wonder if such a virus could alter the amoeba's behavior, perhaps like... this.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.