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Amoeba proteus
Extremely large amoeba. Green color is caused by amoeba ingesting a huge amount of single-celled algae
Shallow pond in rural SW Pennsylvania
Spotted on Nov 17, 2010
Submitted on Nov 23, 2011
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Cool pictures! There was a recent article in the NY Times Science section about a kind of amoeba that form slime-molds. It was fascinating and even funny: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/scienc...