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MOST BACTERIA HAVE THE DECENCY TO BE MICROscopic. Epulopiscium fishelsoni is not among them. The newly identified one-celled macro-microorganism, which lives harmlessly in the intestine of the Red Sea-dwelling brown surgeonfish, is a full fiftieth of an inch long, large enough to be seen with the naked eye. Described in the current Nature, it is a million times as massive as the bacteria that inhabit the human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bacterium From Hell | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

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