The longest name

Myxococcus llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochensis

No joke, this species really exists!

And it holds the record for having the longest scientific name of any living or fossil organism.

It’s a rod-shaped brownish slime bacterium found in soil where it lives as predator and hunts down other microbes in 'wolf packs' and kills them!

It was first isolated near the village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch on the island of Anglesey in North Wales, from where it got its name.