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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That would be mildly terrifying

[–] Nurse_Robot 20 points 2 weeks ago

Being naked isn't that scary

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] ByteJunk 12 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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