Scientists have discovered the first virovore – an organism that eats viruses
Fascinating.  It seems sensible (to a layman) that something would eat viruses but how would we construct tests (not trolling) to determine:<p>1. if the Halteria were not eating something_else, and that something_else was infected by the viruses?<p>2. if the Halteria themselves were not infected by the viruses?<p>3. are the Halteria trying to ingest the viruses, or are they just ingesting lots_of_things in the petri dish?<p>This observation seems interesting, assuming all other variables were constant and there was not some other interplay between the chlorovirus and other microbes which indirectly helped the Halteria grow:<p>&gt;Halteria deprived of the chlorovirus, meanwhile, wasn’t growing at all.<p>Finally if the Halteria can ingest it and yet not be &#x27;infected&#x27; by it then that seems awfully interesting as well.