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I love those virus shapes. They always fascinated my as a kid in science class.
it's wild how they just look like little guys, how did that happen
The "legs" grab onto bacterial cell membranes to insert the central stalk like a syringe. It is a specialised adaptation to parisitism of a specific kind of host, which is observed in many advanced obligate parasites. This kind of specialisation results from many generations of co-evolution.