{"id":136168,"date":"2022-02-28T04:23:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T12:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/scientists-discover-complex-bacteria-bigger-than-a-fruit-fly"},"modified":"2022-02-28T04:23:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T12:23:31","slug":"scientists-discover-complex-bacteria-bigger-than-a-fruit-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/scientists-discover-complex-bacteria-bigger-than-a-fruit-fly","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover complex bacteria bigger than a fruit fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-complex-bacteria-bigger-than-a-fruit-fly.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bacteria are the stuff of nightmares but we can take solace in the fact that they tend to be quite small, in fact, invisible to the naked eye.<\/p>\n<p>Not anymore! Scientists have discovered a bacterium that is bigger than a fruit fly, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/largest-bacterium-ever-discovered-has-unexpectedly-complex-cells\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">according to a report<\/a> by <em>Science<\/em> published on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers also report being amazed by the bacterium\u2019s complexity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bacteria are the stuff of nightmares but we can take solace in the fact that they tend to be quite small, in fact, invisible to the naked eye. Not anymore! Scientists have discovered a bacterium that is bigger than a fruit fly, according to a report by Science published on Wednesday. The researchers also report [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}