Please welcome Megavirus, the world's most ginormous virus

There are many weird viruses on this planet, but none weirder–in a fundamentally important way–than a group known as the giant viruses. For years, they were hiding in plain sight. They were so big–about a hundred times bigger than typical viruses–that scientists mistook them for bacteria. But a close look revealed that they infected amoebae [...]

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