Giant Amoebas?!!!

I saw this on NATGEO and thought it was a hoax, apparently it's not. Here is the link below

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/news/ng-today/102711-mariana-trench-ngtoday.html

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/news/ng-today/102711-mariana-trench-ngtoday.html

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/05lostcity/logs/july27/media/xeno2.html

Sadly they don't look like horror movie ameobas.

Evolution is being clever though. The inverse square law prevent large round cells from surviving but all those convolutions dramatically increase the surface area.

Also apparently they have thousands of nuclei... in which case, I am unsure why this would qualify as "one cell" while something like a slime mold would not.

I don't understand what those things are. They don't look like anything. Is there a mockup drawing? Or are there a high-res images?

It looked like they were filming dirt.

Originally posted by dadudemon
I don't understand what those things are. They don't look like anything. Is there a mockup drawing? Or are there a high-res images?

I linked to clear picture of one.

Originally posted by King Kandy
Also apparently they have thousands of nuclei... in which case, I am unsure why this would qualify as "one cell" while something like a slime mold would not.

If these grow as a single cell rather than fusing together that would explain the differentiation.