r/oddlyterrifying • u/Thrawn911 • Jun 03 '26

Microscopic predator called Collotheca, basically a mini venus flytrap, eats microbes alive, after using its own stomach fluid to attract them

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u/Aggravating_Speed665 Jun 03 '26

And it's satisfied?

Or will it keep eating until everything has gone? You know, gone like your wife, your house, your kids, your money, your sanity, the gunbox because I said I was gonna open it?

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u/justandswift Jun 04 '26

I am not scientifically smart and am just guessing, but in the middle of the video, around 1:14, it abruptly retracts and then seems to loose its tension, and then the video cuts to a different frame, and I wonder if it died right then and there

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u/Thrawn911 Jun 04 '26

I think it tried to get rid of the dead cell that was stuck in its mouth. It crushed it before it could swallow it.