Chaos is a genus of single-celled amoeboid organisms in the family Amoebidae. The largest and most-known species, the so-called "giant amoeba" (Chaos carolinensis), can reach lengths up to 5 mm, although most specimens fall between 1 and 3 mm. [3][4][5]

Gromia sphaerica is a large spherical testate amoeba, a single-celled eukaryotic organism and the largest of its genus, Gromia. The genus itself contains about 13 known species, 3 of which were discovered as late as 2005. [1]

Oct 26, 2011 · Single-celled animals adapted to extreme ocean depths. Huge "ameobas" have been spotted in the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the world's oceans. The giants of the deep are so-called...

Xenophyophores are multinucleate unicellular organisms found on the ocean floor throughout the world's oceans, at depths of 500 to 10,600 metres (1,600 to 34,800 ft). [3][4] They are a kind of foraminiferan that extract minerals from their surroundings and use them to form an exoskeleton known as a test.

Sep 5, 2019 · The largest species in the family Amoebidae, this organism is often simply called the “giant amoeba” after multiple decades of naming controversy. German naturalist Rösel von Rosenhof originally nicknamed the organism “der kleine Proteus”, and its scientific classification names were also used to describe similar organisms.

Oct 21, 2022 · The Syringammina fragilissima is an amoeba that can reach sizes of 8 inches in diameter. That’s a massive single celled organism! This particular largest single cell organism is interesting in that it uses creates a shell called a test using …

Oct 24, 2011 · Scientists have discovered a community of 4-inch amoebas living at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest known part of the world's oceans.

Oct 26, 2011 · Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have found giant amoebas 6.6 miles below the surface of the ocean, in the Mariana Trench to be exact. To put that in perspective: These...

Chaos is a genus of single-celled amoeboid organisms in the family Amoebidae. The largest and most-known species, the so-called "giant amoeba", can reach length...

Nov 8, 2011 · A summer research expedition organized by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has led to the identification of gigantic amoebas called xenophyophores at one of the deepest locations on Earth.