Tag: protist
This protist unfolds its ‘neck’ up to 30 times its body length to scout prey
Oddly, origami could be useful for snagging prey.
A single-celled protist called Lacrymaria olor uses a helix of pleats folded like origami to unspool a necklike protrusion up to 30 times the length of its body, or 1.2 millimeters, to quickly snap up food, researchers report in the June 7 Science. If a roughly 1.7-meter-tall person could do the same, their neck would reach about halfway up the Statue of Liberty.
The finding could help inspire new robotics, such