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Bizarre giant viruses with tubular tentacles and star-like shells discovered in New England forest
(www.livescience.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2023
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I initially read this headline in an 80s surfer accent, and it changed the context just enough to make it awesome.
"Those viruses have tubular tentacles, dude!"
Dude, those bacteriophages are catching some gnarly waves on a cellular level!
Tentacular dude!
Gnarly!