Small Fry

Scientists announced today that they had discovered the world's smallest fish.

It is so small, in fact, that it has no skeleton protecting its head (I have no idea how that works, sorry).

Imagine a fish the size of a single grain of rice - and it leaves in murky peat bogs that are far too acidic for other fish to tolerate.

Alas, like most of the amazing wonders in nature, it is endangered by human activity. In fact, it's a miracle that this one was discovered before it, too, was unknowingly wiped out:

Peat swamps are under threat in Indonesia from fires lit by plantation owners and farmers as well as unchecked development and farming. Several populations of Paedocypris have already been lost, researchers say, according to the Natural History Museum.