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| | FW: [globalnews] UN: Soil's Tiniest Organisms Could Solve HugeProblems |
 | | Over 3,600 earthworms have been described, and scientists say double this number may exist in the wild. |
 | | Most protozoa eat bacteria, says Elaine Ingham of Oregon State University, but one group of amoebae eat fungi, the vampyrellids that suck the life out of their prey. |
 | | "The perfectly round holes drilled through the fungal cell wall, much like the purported puncture marks on the neck of a vampire’s victim, are evidence of the presence of vampyrellid amoebae," says Ingham. |
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