Size Duel deck / The body, cells and particles
Pithovirus
Length: length of the particle
about 1.5 µm
Range used for fair duels: 1.36 µm to 1.65 µm.
A giant virus found in Siberian permafrost; it is longer than many bacteria.
Sources and checks
Checked 2026-11-01: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify, or content-verify-pdf for PDFs); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source.
“1.5 μm long”BGE laboratory, INSERM–CEA–Université Grenoble Alpes: source, retrieved 2026-10-28; quote re-found by the server check
“1.5 μm in length”Colson et al. / Frontiers in Microbiology (2016): source, retrieved 2026-10-28; quote re-found by the server check
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