Danish researchers have discovered a mysterious creature that is neither animal or plant., page 4

Originally posted by Indellkoffer

Originally posted by Chewingonmushrooms
Isn't fungi on a class on it's own as well? I know it isn't classified in the plant kingdom. Any mycellum experts here?

Fungi are a separate kingdom. There are five kingdoms of living things: Monera Kingdom, the Protist Kingdom, the Fungi Kingdom, the Plant Kingdom, and the Animal Kingdom. It's too complex for Monera, and too many cells (I think) for Protist. Will they start a new kingdom? That's a pretty difficult decision -- they first have to find out exactly where it fits in the web of life.

Actually Mesodinium chamaeleon belongs to the ciliate and thus also to the protozoans. Depending on which classification system you use this species is either an animal (classical system), an eukaryote (Three-domain system) or a protist (if you use the 5 kingdom-classification-system). .
en.wikipedia.org...

Many species of ciliates and other protists are mixotrophic. This means, they can use both photosynthesis and heterotrophically nourishment (feeding from the substance of other organisms) as energy source. Other examples are Euglena and various dinoflagellates.

Some higher animals like sea slugs, corals and flatworms also add photosynthesis to their normal heterotrophic nourishment. They use single-cell algae as endosymbionts. These endosymbionts are called zooxanthellae.

It is not uncommon for a single-celled organism to switch between different feeding methods. Often such a switch is linked to different stages of its life-cycle. If I understood the article correctly, the novelty seems to be, that Mesodinium chamaeleon first devoures other single-celled organisms (algae). The algae are dissolved in its food vacuole. But not the whole algae are digested. The chloroplasts (organelles which are responsible for the photosynthesis) and some other structures remain intact in the food-vacuole and from then on provide energy for Mesodinium chamaeleon .

English link
www.newscientist.com...

Studies on the Genus Mesodinium I: Ultrastructure and Description of Mesodinium chamaeleon n. sp., a Benthic Marine Species with Green or Red Chloroplasts by Øjvind Moestrup1, Lydia Garcia-Cuetos, Per Juel Hansen, Tom Fenchel

We provide here the description of a new marine species that harbors green or red chloroplasts. In contrast to certain other species of the genus, Mesodinium chamaeleon n. sp. can be maintained in culture for short periods only. It captures and ingests flagellates including cryptomonads. The prey is ingested very rapidly into a food vacuole without the cryptomonad flagella being shed and the trichocysts being discharged. The individual food vacuoles subsequently serve as photosynthetic units, each containing the cryptomonad chloroplast, a nucleus, and some mitochondria. The ingested cells are eventually digested. This type of symbiosis differs from other plastid-bearing Mesodinium spp. in retaining ingested cryptomonad cells almost intact. The food strategy of the new species appears to be intermediate between heterotrophic species, such as Mesodinium pulex and Mesodinium pupula, and species with red cryptomonad endosymbionts, such as Mesodinium rubrum.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com...

Originally posted by marinesniper0351
reply to post by Char-Lee

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Agreed wont start but come on what kind of life is it to be a vegan(a)... : ) j/k no red meat, no fish, I can already feel my bones breaking and my stomach growling...

Seriously though, I have a friend that supplements his vegan diet to keep his bones and limbs strong, he told me when he did not do this that he became quite weak and used to fracture bones and get hurt a lot...

but damn he had some smokin hot vegan female friends...

they are like a cult (in a good way)

Could be he would have had those problems anyway right.
My favorite food many years ago was BBQ Steak with a lot of fat on it...juice to me now translates body fluids. Body fats, well think of your own ugh! Lol

I LOVE the way we eat now and it has become natural to us, and yes it is hard to watch people eat blood and gore and the smell of it is nauseating to you avoid meet eaters more.

We started because of the horrendous treatment of animals that we just debase to calling "meat". But my husband had high blood pressure and high cholesterol at age 40!
Health benefits and a very fun experimenting with new recipes and spices have become our way of life. Finding things that are healthy and taste good is not hard like I had thought it would be! You get used to it very quickly and wonder why you did not start earlier. We use a Vit B supplement but most people take vitamins vegetarian or not.

Interesting the studies where they feed the rats starvation diets and they get healthy and live longer...I think money making product pushers are wanting us to eat eat eat and think we will starve or have tiny shrunken brains if we skip their beef lol!!!

Here are some studies you may find interesting.
www.vivausa.org...

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A more advanced version of these will be ruling the world in 1,000 years after humans are the extinct and the next fossil fuel!

reply to post by nineix

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I remember reading, a long time ago, an article about these rare individuals that lived for years with nothing to eat but basically air and water.

The article also spoke of a nun that lived for years eating nothing but the communion wafer. I have my doubts but who really knows?

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David Wilcock's New book the source field investigation has a similar example, and lots of other amazing scientific facts. Read it, and you'll have a more open mind and wider consciousness.

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Great find OP! Nature is a great thing. Such a unique survival method. Now how long will it be before a lab reverse engineers it so they can at it to corn fields....can't wait to see that corn chasing the cows All kidding aside it could provide a unique opportunity to study learn form one of the more "out there" creatures on our planet.
Regards,
RogueTraveller

Originally posted by 1ness
reply to post by Mianeye

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David Wilcock's New book the source field investigation has a similar example, and lots of other amazing scientific facts. Read it, and you'll have a more open mind and wider consciousness.

And a lighter wallet and a lot of responsible, sane people wanting to know why in the world you would support a known fraud.

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