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Small contest

  • 27/02/2006

Small contest Researchers have found one of the smallest known fish on record in the peat swamps of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Belonging to the Paedocypris genus, the fish (see inset) is just 7.9 millimetres (mm) long at full maturity. To keep their size down, the fish abandoned many of the attributes of adulthood

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