94: Smallest Fish Found

By Mark Frankel
Jan 3, 2005 6:00 AMNov 12, 2019 4:37 AM
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The female stout infantfish is the largest example of the world’s tiniest vertebrate—but not by much. About as long as the average pencil is wide (0.33 inch), the female is only 1/18th of an inch longer than the male. | Courtesy of Carl Bento/Australian Museum

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