<story><title>Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event</title><url>https://newatlas.com/biology/life-merger-evolution-symbiosis-organelle/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yosito</author><text>The headline makes it sound like this happened last week, but it actually happened 100 million years ago, and we&amp;#x27;re just now discovering it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hgo</author><text>Ah, that&amp;#x27;s a relief. It sounded incredibly scary if it was some new type of species just now. I would imagine that it would overwhelm our ecosystems wreaking havoc until a new balance is eventually found with new winners and new types of species dominating our environment.</text></comment>
<story><title>Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event</title><url>https://newatlas.com/biology/life-merger-evolution-symbiosis-organelle/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yosito</author><text>The headline makes it sound like this happened last week, but it actually happened 100 million years ago, and we&amp;#x27;re just now discovering it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OJFord</author><text>Ah, thank you, I was suspicious thinking what are the chances they would just happen to be watching something microscopic when such a rare thing occurs...&lt;p&gt;So, since the article didn&amp;#x27;t mention it, presumably nothing interesting happened as a result? Yet?</text></comment>