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http:\/\/deepseanews.com\/2014\/05\/the-scariest-inhabitant-of-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-is-not-what-you-think\/<\/a>\n\nPOSTED ON MAY 14, 2014 BY MIRIAM GOLDSTEIN\n\nThe scariest inhabitant of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not what\nyou think\n\nWhen you think of terrifying monsters that might inhabit the Great\nPacific Garbage Patch, what do you think of? Mutant sharks? Pissed-off\nsquid? Rabid barnacles? (Well, ok, probably not rabid barnacles.)\n\nNope. The scariest inhabitant of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is this.\n\nMeet Halofolliculina. It is a single-celled organism ? a ciliate ? about\nthe size of a sesame seed with teeny tiny devil horns. (They are\nactually pericytostomial wings, not devil horns, but I won?t tell if you\ndon?t.) My collaborators Hank Carson and Marcus Eriksen found these\nlittle buggers living on plastic debris floating way offshore in the\nwestern Pacific, which wouldn?t be terrifying in itself since a lot of\nstrange critters live on plastic debris (see our paper for a complete\nlist). But Halofolliculina is a pathogen that causes skeletal eroding\nband disease in corals, and this piece of debris was headed towards Hawaii.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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