Is that really a virus? That would be huge for a virus.
how is that a bacteriophage?
Yeah looks like a diatom skeleton. And the scale is quite wrong
I did not realize that tardigrades were so small. Previously I thought one would be able to see one with the naked eye.
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.
Most species grow to half a millimetre. So they’re just barely visible to the naked eye; like a small spec of dust. The guys in this micrograph are of course smaller
That would be mildly terrifying
Being naked isn’t that scary
That bacteriophage looks awesome tho, I want one to scale
