Oozing Through Texas Soil, a Team of Amoebas Billions Strong

[lsanderson]

AS ONE A field of genetically identical amoebas in Texas raises the possibility that cells might organize on much larger scales than once thought.
By CAROL KAESUK YOON
Published: March 23, 2009

After producing superlatives like the world’s biggest statue of a jackrabbit and the nation’s most unpopular modern-day president, Texas can now boast what may be its most bizarre and undoubtedly its slimiest topper yet: the world’s largest known colony of clonal amoebas. More