The Boston Globe, December 17th, 1995
What's being called the zoological find of the decade is no bigger than the dot over the "i" in its name: Symbion pandora. For years, maybe since the evolution of crustaceans, it has lived in obscurity on the lips of Norwegian lobsters, waiting for a discerning eye to discover its uniqueness. The moment came last week in the journal Nature, where Danish scientists Peter Funch and Reinhardt Mobjerg Kristensen announced that the microscopic organism is like nothing else in the animal kingdom and deserves its own phylum. That's the second-largest grouping in the kingdom after "animal" and is defi...
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