by Christoph — When con­sid­er­ing "Who ate whom?", you're likely to think of the eu­kary­otes. They gob­ble up just about every­thing by phago­cy­to­sis, a com­mon prop­erty of uni­cel­lu­lar pro­tists and cells of more com­plex mul­ti­cel­lu­lar eu­kary­otes such as us hu­mans (macrophages, for ex­am­ple). And whether it's mi­croplas­tics, min­eral fibers like as­bestos, or­ganic de­bris or liv­ing...