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    required

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    I did not realize that tardigrades were so small. Previously I thought one would be able to see one with the naked eye.

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      Most species grow to half a millimetre. So they’re just barely visible to the naked eye; like a small spec of dust.

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      That would be mildly terrifying

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        Being naked isn’t that scary

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      I’m not a biologist but there is no way in hell that a virus can be as big as a living organism right? That’s probably not a bacteriophage

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        Definitely not, a bacteriophage is like 500 nanometres. A tardigrade is 0.5 mm, or 500 000 nanometres, literally 1000x the size.

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        I am a microbiologist, there’s no way in hell that’s a virus.

        Edit: it’s probably a radiolarian skeleton, maybe genus cornutella.

        Edit 2: it’s indeed a cornutella skeleton: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/12782032

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          Came here to say this…

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    Is that really a virus? That would be huge for a virus.

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      It’s a radiolarian skeleton, more info here: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/12782032

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    how is that a bacteriophage?

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      Yeah looks like a diatom skeleton. And the scale is quite wrong

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        It looks nothing like either a centric or pennate diatom

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          Nonetheless it is in no way a phage. What might it be, do you think?

          I know it’s a joke meme, but I did not achieve my grand success in life by being ‘fun’. It’s just not my thing ;)

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            Probably a radiolarian skeleton. Check out pictures of the cornutella genus. The morphology and relative size to the tardigrades match up.

            Edit: score! Looking up tardigrade and cornutella together brought me to the source of the picture. I knew all that school was good for something. Here’s a screenshot because fuck Xitter:

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              Now that’s what I call fun!

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    That bacteriophage looks awesome tho, I want one to scale

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