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:
how is that a bacteriophage?
Yeah looks like a diatom skeleton. And the scale is quite wrong
It looks nothing like either a centric or pennate diatom
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 ;)
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: