Scientists Discover World's Smallest Fish

sckienle writes "Yahoo news is reporting that scientists have found the world's smallest fish in Thailand. It wins the prize by 0.1 mm, being 7.9 mm in length. The fish has other unique qualifications: it lives in acidic water (ph 3), the males have fins that appear to be able to grasp objects, and have a head that is unprotected by a skeleton." From the article: "[Maurice Kottelat] said the record of finding the world's smallest fish was not important, preferring to focus on what he said was "scientifically significant." "What's important is finding a complete vertebrae in a body so small," he said."

Comments

Hope for life on other planets

[catahoula10]

""It's tiny, it lives in acid and it has these bizarre grasping fins. "

If science can find a fish living in acid, then the possibility of life on other planets seems more real.

Re:Hope for life on other planets

[ackthpt]

If science can find a fish living in acid, then the possibility of life on other planets seems more real.

Who's to determine what's normal for life? One lesson you gain from seeing a bit of grass growing up through a crack on an interstate is that nature is tenacious. On a different world, under different atmospheric pressure, light spectrum and intensity and different chemical make-up of environment you could find life. It just wouldn't do well here as neither would we there.