Diatoms are adorable. Freaking adorable!

Well, they are. I love any example of endosymbiosis, because lets face it, it's a pretty cool process.

I Stumbled Upon a little blurb from BBC.
"Diatoms, an ornate type of tiny algae, are known to have gathered up genes from red algae by "endosymbiosis" - simply absobing green algae within their cells. But researchers reporting in Science have found that 16% of diatoms' genes came much earlier from green algae, likely acquired the same way."

found @ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/sci_nat_enl_1245931822/html/1.stm