Stop Believing the ‘Bacteria Are Simple’ Lie. This 3-Billion-Year-Old Predator Proves It.
We’ve been taught that bacteria are strictly prey, forever doomed to be swallowed by complex eukaryotic cells. But a 10-micrometer monster discovered in Palau shatters this dogma. It evolved 3 billion years ago to hunt and swallow other cells—proving Earth’s first predators weren’t ‘higher’ lifeforms, but microscopic rule-breakers.