http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... ortal.html
The creature, first discovered in a small industrial cooling tower on the outskirts of the city, could qualify for a new "domain" in the tree of life - where a domain is a bigger category than a kingdom or a phylum.
The "giant virus", dubbed the Mimivirus, or "mimicking microbe", because it was first mistaken for a bacterium, inhabits amoebae and is more than twice as big as any other virus so far found. At about half a millionth of a metre across - around the size of a small bacterium - it is one of the few that can be seen under a light microscope.
If you access the Telegraph's article, you will see that the picture looks like
a big hairy smiling face! (200,000 times' magnification).
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Life - but not as we know it...
Bill Sikes wrote: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... ortal.html
If you access the Telegraph's article, you will see that the picture looks like
a big hairy smiling face! (200,000 times' magnification).
I have read the telegraph article. I have no proper credentials to comment on the finding. I agree with you that it may be a life which modern man is not aware of.
If you access the Telegraph's article, you will see that the picture looks like
a big hairy smiling face! (200,000 times' magnification).
I have read the telegraph article. I have no proper credentials to comment on the finding. I agree with you that it may be a life which modern man is not aware of.
Life - but not as we know it...
Bill,
Thanks for this fascinating article! I'm curious to see how the scientific community will end up classifying it. If this virus does end up qualifying as a fourth domain - it would be revolutionary.
Makes you wonder of all the things we still haven't discovered.
Thanks for this fascinating article! I'm curious to see how the scientific community will end up classifying it. If this virus does end up qualifying as a fourth domain - it would be revolutionary.
Makes you wonder of all the things we still haven't discovered.
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