一种被科学家们戏称为“来自地狱的恶魔”的物种(简称“魔虫”),实际上是一类微小的有机体,属于非常古老的单细胞有机体——腰鞭毛虫类的成员之一,是在20世纪80年代末才被发现的。腰鞭毛虫是介于动物与植物之间的一种海洋生物,其生物化学特性简直令人遐想无穷。 A species known by scientists as “devils from hell” (“devil”) is actually a tiny group of organisms belonging to one of the very old single-celled organisms, the dinoflagellates. It was discovered in the late 1980s. The dinoflagellate is a marine organism between animals and plants, and its biochemical properties are simply fantastic.