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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish31•2 months agoI did not realize that tardigrades were so small. Previously I thought one would be able to see one with the naked eye.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish32•edit-22 months agoMost species grow to half a millimetre. So they’re just barely visible to the naked eye; like a small spec of dust.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish14•2 months agoI’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
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish12•2 months agoDefinitely not, a bacteriophage is like 500 nanometres. A tardigrade is 0.5 mm, or 500 000 nanometres, literally 1000x the size.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•edit-22 months agoI 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
I did not realize that tardigrades were so small. Previously I thought one would be able to see one with the naked eye.
That would be mildly terrifying
Being naked isn’t that scary
Most species grow to half a millimetre. So they’re just barely visible to the naked eye; like a small spec of dust.
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
Definitely not, a bacteriophage is like 500 nanometres. A tardigrade is 0.5 mm, or 500 000 nanometres, literally 1000x the size.
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
Came here to say this…