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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.
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
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
Definitely not, a bacteriophage is like 500 nanometres. A tardigrade is 0.5 mm, or 500 000 nanometres, literally 1000x the size.
That would be mildly terrifying
Being naked isn’t that scary
