How big (or small) could animals get?
Jan 13, 2022
2 minutes
WITH EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGIST JV CHAMARY
ANIMALS COME IN A RANGE OF sizes. The smallest are from a group called Myxozoa, jellyfish-like parasites about one-hundredth of a millimetre long that are only visible under a microscope. Among vertebrates you would recognise with the naked eye, the smallest known to man is Paedophryne amauensis, a tiny frog that is just 8mm long.
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