Discussion of a similar post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44957157 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44957157 (163 point | 55 days ago | 73 comments)

Discussion of a similar post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44957157 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44957157 (163 point | 55 days ago | 73 comments) My takeaway from a comment by Ultimatt: > [...] This isn't some new miracle find this is a well described and growing phylum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanobdellota https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanobdellota Having genome reduced symbionts of dinoflagellates is an even more common and general phenomena, it's almost the definition of a dino to have a weird zoo of peculiar friends and things becoming endo symbionts. This finding is definitely cool, but I don't understand why the article has to make out its a "breakthrough" or "astounding" rather than actually the more astounding thing is how normal this very weird thing is!