That would be mildly terrifying
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gianni@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
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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Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Being naked isn’t that scary
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
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@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Definitely not, a bacteriophage is like 500 nanometres. A tardigrade is 0.5 mm, or 500 000 nanometres, literally 1000x the size.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I am a microbiologist, there’s no way in hell that’s a virus.
IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Came here to say this…
azi@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Most species grow to half a millimetre. So they’re just barely visible to the naked eye; like a small spec of dust.