Scientists have discovered traces of the existence of “vampires”

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Ученые обнаружили следы существования "вампиров"Paleobiology discovered ancient amoebas vampires.

Vampires on the Earth really existed over 550 million years, according to U.S. paleobiology, University of California, Santa Barbara.

However, we are talking about a special kind of amoeba, which penetrated inside the body of its victim, feeding on its internal organs.

American researchers have studied the ancient remains by using the electron microscope to find inside a round hole the correct forms that may directly demonstrate the first acts of vampirism amoeba amoebae of the Vampyrellidae kind. These tiny creatures were doing the holes in the bodies of their victims, consuming the contents of the internal organs.

The study’s author emphasizes that these facts testify to the earliest moments of predation by eukaryotes. Similar examples among other microorganisms can be found in the period before 550 million years ago since the first appearance of mineralized shells, say the biologists. Thus different types of amoebae-vampires had done variously shaped hole inside of his victim.

However, in earlier period of life, the eukaryotes, about 1 billion years ago, there were no traces of vampirism amoebae. Scientists interested in this fact, therefore, the biologists intend to establish the reasons for the appearance of predators, and to determine the processes of evolution of vampires-eukaryotes in time. It is not excluded, the researchers concluded that the appearance of predators coincides with the saturation of the Earth’s atmosphere with oxygen.

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