The fauna is so diverse that we are familiar with hardly a hundredth of the inhabitants of our planet. The most famous are large mammals. But there are also many miniature representatives of the fauna.

The smallest frog

The length of this little frog called Paedophryne is 7.7 millimeters, although there are also "giants" among them, reaching 11.3 millimeters. Males are always smaller than females. Due to their brown color, they manage to remain unnoticed both on the ground and in trees.

The smallest chameleon

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The tiny lizard, the chameleon, the little brookesia (Brookesia minima), lives in the tropics of Madagascar. Its length is 1.2 centimeters.

The smallest jellyfish

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The irukandji jellyfish looks like a tiny (25 by 12 millimeters) almost transparent white bell. At the same time, the sizes of the tentacles can reach lengths from one millimeter to one meter. The main feature of Irukandji is that its poison, which, by the way, has not been studied by scientists, is capable of paralyzing or killing a person.

Smallest mammal

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The weight of the pygmy shrew with a body length of 3-4.5 centimeters is less than 2 grams.

The smallest deer

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The growth of the northern poodu reaches 3-40 centimeters. The horns are also very small. The northern pudu lives in southern Chile and the island of Chilos, although it is very difficult to see it there - the animals lead a rather secretive lifestyle.

Small animals of Russia

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The smallest bird is the yellow-headed beetle. The length of its body is about 10 centimeters, the bird weighs up to 10 grams. Its brother - the red-headed beetle - weighs even less, only 5 grams, and the body length barely reaches nine centimeters.

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Quails are considered the smallest representatives of chickens. They weigh about 100 grams.

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The smallest fox is called Korsak. With a body length of about 50 centimeters, the chanterelle reaches 30 centimeters in height.

The smallest creature on Earth

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Kitty the pig-nosed bat is considered the smallest creature on Earth. This inhabitant of Thailand weighs less than 2 grams with a body length of 2.9 cm to 3.3 cm. During the day, animals hide in caves of limestone hills, and in the evenings they hunt insects in small groups. According to biologists, their number reaches just over 500 individuals.

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The dwarf shrew Savi is the smallest animal on Earth among land mammals. Its weight is approximately 1.5 - 2.5 grams. This creature has one feature - it eats food about three to four times its weight per day.

Mikhailov Boris Pavlovich - Soviet artist, author of children's stories about nature.

Was born in 1919 in Leningrad. He studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the Leningrad Civil Engineering Institute and at the same time in the art studio. In 1942, after graduating from the institute, he voluntarily went to the front. In August 1943, near Smolensk, he was seriously wounded. He spent almost two years in hospitals in Moscow and Leningrad. After recovering, he studied painting on his own: he improved his technique, studied the paintings of outstanding Russian artists.
This is what Boris Pavlovich wrote about his stories in the book "The Tiny Beast": "Love for the motherland begins with love for its nature." Every time I sit on a tree stump in a forest or field and paint sketches of our dim, but surprisingly soft and lyrical northern nature, I remember this phrase. And no matter how successful my sketch turns out, every time I see, I feel that I have not fully expressed my enthusiastic attitude to my native nature. And then I take a small book out of my pocket and hastily write down the impressions and feelings that overwhelm me ...

ON STUDIES

A stupid, ill-bred dog Raid followed me on the hunt. Only this is not the kind of hunt that you probably thought about - I went on a hunt for sketches.
It was early morning. Drops of morning dew glittered on the leaves of trees and bushes, on every grass and blade of grass. And in low places, a whitish mist floated slowly. From a distance it seems that this fabulous milk river flows in front of you. You will enter this river and find yourself waist-deep in dense fog, so thick that you can touch it with your hand.

I do not know how and where the dog Raid marks his impressions. But that he perfectly feels and understands all this unusually pure morning beauty in nature - there is no doubt about it. In frantic delight he rushes about like a madman, rushes about in all directions, jumps on my chest with wet and dirty paws. "Let's kiss!" - written in his kind brown eyes.
I don't feel like kissing at all - Raid has a very wet face. The dog understands this, but does not take offense at all. In an excess of feelings, he throws himself on the ground, rolls on the wet grass. Then he jumps up, fiercely shakes himself off, pouring cold rain on me, and again rushes with an enthusiastic squeal, where his feet are taking.

You look - the dog is gone. The tail alone dangles absurdly above the waves of fog. It is only from this wagging tail that I guess that he has not yet smashed his head, crazed with happiness, on some stump.
But what is it? The tail stopped in one place, stretched out into a string and quickly, quickly swayed from side to side. I understand a little like a dog. This movement of the tail means that Raid has stumbled upon something alive. What is there? Maybe some kind of hare, or a hedgehog, or some other animal? - Raid, you can’t! - I shout sternly and run as fast as possible to the aid of the hapless animal.
I make it on time. The raid just opened its mouth and hammered something very small, gray, fluffy.
A small head with a long beak and very large black eyes sticks out of the mouth.
Woodcock, I guess.
- Give it back! I order in a tone that does not tolerate any objection.
The raid frowns an eyebrow, realizes something, squints at me with a guilty eye and reluctantly opens its mouth. A gray, warm lump falls into my palm. Woodcock is completely unharmed. He looks at me boldly, as if he was not just on the verge of death.
- Ay-ay-ay, you are not ashamed, such a club, - I reproach the dog, - to offend such a nice kid.

The raid blinks guiltily, turns away and slowly twists its tail. He is clearly ashamed. He looks at me sideways.
"Well, it's my fault," says Raid with all his appearance, "I won't be anymore ..."
I pat his long, soft ears affectionately.
- Good dog, smart dog. Now you can kiss.
But now Raid has no time for kissing. His tail swayed tensely from side to side again. I looked into the grass and saw a few more gray living lumps. Woodcocks, waddling funny in the tall grass, flee in different directions.
And a few steps away from us, with an alarming hoarse cry, a mother, a woodcock, flies over, jumps, as if hit, beating on the ground. So she distracts our attention from her little ones.
I lowered the woodcock to the ground, and as if nothing had happened, he quickly hobbled over to his mother. Soon the whole woodcock family disappeared into the bushes.
I sat down on a tree stump to write it all down in my notebook.
The raid, curled up at my feet, waits patiently. His gaze is clouded. What is he thinking about? How and where will he mark the events of today's "hunt"?
And I really regret that I understand very little like a dog.

MEETINGS ON THE TRIP

From our village Malaya Runa to the big village where the school is located, if you go straight, there won't be a kilometer. A narrow path, tightly trampled by childish feet, runs through hills and ravines, through fields and copses.
I constantly hunt in these places, often go out on the children's trail. Early in the morning, ten of our children hurry to school, busily pacing each other in the back of the head, like a brood of goose.
Fedya Khrapov usually goes ahead. He is the oldest, he is the leader. Fedya's swirling head is constantly spinning on a long, thin neck. The leader's attentive, stern eyes see farther than anyone else and more than anyone else. And there is something to see here - all kinds of birds and animals are many. Fedya's father is a hunter, so it is not surprising that he knows a lot about the inhabitants of the local forests and fields. When meeting me, Fedya says solidly:
- Hello, hunter!
And all the guys with obvious respect wait and listen - we seriously interpret with him, like a man to a man.
Following Fedya along the path, two smaller boys are relentlessly following: Sanka, nicknamed Karabara, and Kolka Matryonin, the son of Matryona's aunt. Six children from the elementary grades are nimbly behind them. The fourth-grader Sveta closes the brood. She has a pioneering assignment: patronage of first graders. She is not very interested in birds and animals, but she always carefully watches the kids - if they are tired, they would not lag behind.
While it is dry and warm Indian summer, this easy path to school for the children turns out to be like a morning walk.
And as the rains go, the matter is worse. Laughing children walk in silence, some in a waterproof raincoat, some under a oilcloth. Fedya walks in his father's warm quilted jacket. And Sveta is hiding under her mother’s big umbrella, and with her there are two, or even three babies. Damp ... sad ...

And as the snow falls and freezes a little - it's good again!
The further time goes into winter, the higher the snow walls on the sides of the child's path. By the New Year, you see, snow is knee-deep for the guys, in February it is already waist-deep, and in March, when snowstorms and snowstorms are sweeping, the path goes very deep into the snowdrifts. You look from the side - in front of you jumping from a snowdrift to a snowdrift on a thin neck, as if on one leg, Fedina's wobbling head in a hare's three-ear turns incessantly, vigilantly looks around. Further two smaller heads roll - these and necks above the snowdrifts are not visible. At some distance the black pom-pom of Sveta's hat floats. And the heads of the kids over the snowdrifts are not to be seen at all.
But this is also for the best. In the field and in the forest in winter, everyone who is smaller strives to hide in the snow. There, neither frost, nor a blizzard, nor a blizzard are terrible. The children know this, they see it with their own eyes.
Someone over there made a small hole in the snow, jumped upstairs, sewed a stitch of tiny footprints on the fresh powder, and dived through another hole under the snow again.
- Mouse it! - the kids are buzzing. - Chilled, go, in the snow, it's chilly today.
But aside from the path between thin pink birches under thick black Christmas trees, someone also made holes in the snow. Large holes - four childish fists enter freely. And under the snow the passage has been laid. They looked, and from the other end of the snowy passage, from another hole, someone's head appeared, grayish, with red eyebrows, currant-currant eyes, like a little cockerel.
Frr-frr-frr! - agile wings crackled softly, and a gray-brown bird from the summer dived into the dense needles of a tall Christmas tree.
- Ryabok! - the kids shout cheerfully. - Our sandgrouse!
This hazel grouse is their old friend, it always flies here.
Our guys notice everything, everything is known. The Snow Book is always read in unison and unmistakably. Almost always ... Once they saw in the snow small footprints the size of a pretty penny. Sledochki jump - two side by side in front and two are the same behind, and then go into the hole, like mice, under the snow. Only the hole is three times larger than the mouse.
For a long time the guys stood near unfamiliar tracks - who could it be? And as always in such cases, the children turned to their leader.
- Who?
- Mole! - Fedya answered confidently.
- Of course, a mole, but who else ?! - everyone immediately agreed.

Only Sveta thought: like a mole, but like and not a mole. Silently, I thought so to myself, did not say a word. And Fedya suddenly turned to her and asked sternly:
- What are you doing?
- And I’m nothing, - Sveta answered quietly, as if making excuses, - only ...
- What only? - Fedya knitted his eyebrows.
- These footprints - look! - they jump, and the mole seems to be crawling, eh? - And Sveta fixed her clear eyes on the leader.
And eight more pairs of eyes - gray and blue, black and brown, blue and green - asked incredulously: "A-ah-ah-ah?"
Oh, this Svetka! Always says something across. I would have slapped her stupid white cap with a black pompom - like a hare's ear sticking out: it is white, and the tip is black. Laughter...
- Creeps, crawls! You can't crawl through the frost, so he jumped so as not to freeze, - Fedya found.
Frr-frr-frrf! - the hazel grouse, familiar to the guys, suddenly fluttered its wings in alarm, fluttering out of its hole.
And after him from under the snow an unprecedented animal darted like an arrow - all white, only the very tip of its tail is black.

The animal missed, fell, made two or three jumps and disappeared under the snow.
- Well, what kind of mole is it? - Sveta said in a low voice again, and her thin eyebrows stubbornly moved. - The mole is black, isn't it?
- Black-black! And what is a hare in the summer? And what about the swamp partach? Although both are white in winter, Fedya does not give up.
- And the tail? - Sveta answered even more quietly, but even more confidently. - Has your mole's tail also grown for the winter?
The guys got excited, argued. Some for Fedya, some for Sveta. Such a noise was raised that snow began to crumble from the branches. Animals and birds were alarmed around. Black grouse, which hung with overripe black fruits on thin branches of birches, noisily beat their wings and flew away. The hare jumped out of its snowy hole and rolled quickly in the snow. And the guys do not calm down, huddled in a bunch, arguing, shouting, waving their hands.
From the side it is funny to watch: disheveled childish heads with flushed faces and flushed eyes are jumping over the snowdrifts, as if cocky young roosters are flying into each other.
I had to intervene. I threw my gun over my shoulders - the black grouse flew away! - and skied up to the guys. I asked everything in order, understood everything and, as best I could, explained what's what ...
My roosters calmed down, hastily cleaned and smoothed their disheveled feathers, and again walked in single file along their path.
Only now Sveta was ahead of everyone. And Fedya, clearly upset and puzzled, walked behind with his head bowed.
Having caught up with me, he stopped and, after a pause, nodded at a black pom-pom on a white cap jumping in front:
- Neither give nor take - the ermine has a tail: it is white, and the tip is black. Laughter...
He said this to me with a mocking smile, confidingly, like a hunter to a hunter, like a man to a man. Then he sighed and went after the guys.

THE SMALLEST BEAST

Have you heard of shrews? Maybe you've heard. And maybe you even know that shrews are of great benefit to the forest, as they exterminate many harmful insects. They may have heard, but probably not seen. Because shrews are the smallest animals that inhabit our forests and fields. Well, who, tell me, will see in the thick tall grass a little baby smaller than a child's finger? And if we add to this that the shrew is an extremely secretive, fearful, cautious animal and hides and hides at any approaching unfamiliar noise, then it is understandable why it is almost impossible to see a shrew.
But I happened to see her. And not one, but with a whole brood of cubs! Can you imagine what it is - the cubs of a tiny shrew? These are absolutely unimaginable tinyhotulins the size of a fly! And these babies have everything that a beast is supposed to have: a torso, and legs, and a tail, and a head, of course. And in the head - a brain, probably the size of a grain of millet. It is in size. As for the mind, judge for yourself.
It so happened that in the forest, the paths of two animals crossed - the largest and the smallest.
I went to the sketches with a box for paints and brushes, such a box is called a "sketchbook". I walked and accidentally scared a resting moose off the day's bed. A moose jumped up and trotted away from me. This is a beast! Kilograms, probably three hundred - four hundred in weight. The span of the horns of such giants reaches one and a half meters. And the footprints are probably the size of my cap.
With a terrible noise, the elk broke through the green wall of young pine trees and disappeared into a dense aspen grove. "That's how she was," I thought, and went to look at the tracks.

I got down on my knees in front of the dent, took off the cap from my head in order to try to cover the moose track with it for interest.
And then I saw that a small animal was rushing about on top of the dent, and at the bottom of the dent a second one was swarming, several times smaller than the one at the top. Well, what a tiny one! I had to put on my glasses to get a better look at him. As I put on my glasses, I immediately realized - yes, these are shrews, a mother and a cub!
That's so good luck, that's how happiness came to me! I was on my knees and held my breath so as not to frighten off rare animals. I look and see: the mother found a gentle area of ​​the dent, nimbly went downstairs and substituted her tail for the baby. He, without hesitating for a long time, as if he had been doing this all his life, grabbed his teeth (I did not see them, but only guessed about it) at the tip of his mother's tail, and she dragged the baby up a gentle slope, as if in tow, upstairs.
Further it was absolutely wonderful. Once upstairs, the mother opened her mouth and squeaked something in her digging dialect. And immediately, out of nowhere near her, there were a dozen, as it seemed to me, the same kids as the first one. They lined up - believe it or not! - one by one: ponytail in mouth, ponytail in mouth. It turned out to be a living chain, as if children from a kindergarten were crossing the road: each back one is holding onto the coat of the front one. And this whole procession - and the procession is only a few centimeters long! - Instantly moved to some goal of her own, quickly, quickly seeding with tiny legs.
And before I could blink an eye, everyone disappeared into the grass. There were shrews - and no!
So much for your brain with a grain of millet!


This world is strangely arranged: some love strive to create something monumental and gigantic in order to become famous all over the world and go down in history, while others - create minimalist copies of ordinary things and amaze the world with them no less. This review contains the smallest objects that exist in the world and at the same time are no less functional than their full-size counterparts.

1. Pistol SwissMiniGun


SwissMiniGun is no bigger than a regular key, but it is capable of firing tiny bullets that shoot out of the barrel at speeds in excess of 430 km / h. This is more than enough to kill a person at close range.

2. Car Peel 50


Weighing only 69 kg, the Peel 50 is the smallest road-legal vehicle ever. This three-wheeled "pepelats" could reach a speed of 16 km / h.

3. Kalou School


UNESCO recognized the Iranian Kalou school as the smallest in the world. It has only 3 students and a former soldier Abdul-Mohammed Sherani, who is now a teacher.

4. A kettle weighing 1.4 grams


It was created by the ceramic master Wu Ruishen. Although this teapot weighs just 1.4 grams and fits on your fingertip, you can brew tea in it.

5. Sark Prison


Sark Prison was built in the Channel Islands in 1856. It had room for only 2 prisoners, who, moreover, were in very cramped conditions.

6. Tumbleweed


This house was named "Perakati-field" (Tumbleweed). It was built by Jay Schafer from San Francisco. Although the house is smaller than some people's wardrobes (only 9 square meters), it has a work area, a bedroom and a bathtub with shower and toilet.

7. Mills End Park


Mills End Park in Portland is the smallest park in the world. Its diameter is only ... 60 centimeters. That being said, the park has a butterfly swimming pool, a miniature Ferris wheel, and tiny statues.

8. Edward Niño Hernandez


The growth of Edward Niño Hernandez from Colombia is only 68 centimeters. The Guinness Book of Records recognized him as the smallest person in the world.

9. Police station in a telephone booth


In essence, it is no more than a telephone booth. But it was actually a functioning police station in Carabella, Florida.

10. Sculptures by Willard Wigan


British sculptor Willard Wigan, who suffered from dyslexia and poor school performance, found solace in the creation of miniature works of art. His sculptures are barely visible to the naked eye.

11. The bacterium Mycoplasma Genitalium


12. Porcine circovirus


Although there is still debate about what can be considered "alive" and what is not, most biologists do not classify a virus as a living organism due to the fact that it cannot reproduce or does not have a metabolism. The virus, however, can be much smaller than any living organism, including bacteria. The smallest is a single-stranded DNA virus called porcine circovirus. Its size is only 17 nanometers.

13. Amoeba


The smallest object visible to the naked eye is approximately 1 millimeter. This means that under certain conditions, a person can see an amoeba, ciliate shoe, and even a human egg.

14. Quarks, leptons and antimatter ...


Over the past century, scientists have made great strides in understanding the vastness of space and the microscopic “building blocks” of which it is made. When it came to figuring out what is the smallest observable particle in the universe, people ran into some difficulties. At one point, they thought it was an atom. Then scientists discovered a proton, a neutron, and an electron.

But it didn't end there. Everyone knows today that when these particles are pushed against each other in places like the Large Hadron Collider, they can be shattered into even smaller particles, such as quarks, leptons, and even antimatter. The problem is that it is impossible to determine what is the smallest, since the size at the quantum level becomes insignificant, just as all the usual rules of physics do not apply (some particles have no mass, while others even have a negative mass).

15. Vibrating strings of subatomic particles


Considering what was said above regarding the fact that the concept of size does not matter at the quantum level, you can think of string theory. It's a slightly controversial theory that all subatomic particles are made up of vibrating strings that interact to create things like mass and energy. Thus, since these strings do not technically have a physical size, it can be argued that they are, in a sense, the "smallest" objects in the universe.

The world and science never stand still. More recently, in physics textbooks, they confidently wrote that the electron is the smallest particle. Then the smallest particles were mesons, then bosons. And now science has discovered a new the smallest particle in the universe Is a Planck black hole. True, it has so far been discovered only in theory. This particle belongs to the category of black holes because its gravitational radius is greater than or equal to the wavelength. Of all the existing black holes, the Planck one is the smallest.

Too short a lifetime of these particles cannot make their practical detection possible. At least for now. And they are formed, as is commonly believed, as a result of nuclear reactions. But it is not only the lifetime of Planck's black holes that prevents them from being detected. Now, unfortunately, this is not possible from a technical point of view. In order to synthesize Planck black holes, an energy accelerator of more than a thousand electron-volts is needed.

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Despite such a hypothetical existence of this smallest particle in the Universe, its practical discovery in the future is quite possible. After all, not so long ago, the legendary Higgs boson could not be detected either. It was for its detection that an installation was created, which only the laziest inhabitant on Earth has not heard of - the Large Hadron Collider. Scientists' confidence in the success of these studies helped to achieve a sensational result. The Higgs boson is currently the smallest particle of those whose existence has been practically proven. Its discovery is very important for science, it made it possible to acquire mass for all particles. And if the particles had no mass, the universe could not exist. Not a single substance could form in it.

Despite the practical proven existence of this particle, the Higgs boson, practical applications for it have not yet been invented. So far, this is just theoretical knowledge. But in the future anything is possible. Not all discoveries in the field of physics immediately had practical application. Nobody knows what will happen in a hundred years. After all, as mentioned earlier, the world and science never stand still.

Incredible facts

People tend to pay attention to large objects that grab our attention right away.

On the contrary, small things can go unnoticed, although this does not make them less important.

Some of them we can see with the naked eye, others only with the help of a microscope, and there are those that can be imagined only theoretically.

Here's a collection of the world's smallest things, from tiny toys, miniature animals and humans to a hypothetical subatomic particle.


The smallest pistol in the world

The smallest revolver in the world SwissMiniGun seemingly no bigger than a door key. However, appearances are deceiving, and a pistol with a length of only 5.5 cm and a weight of just under 20 grams can fire at a speed of 122 meters per second. This is enough to kill at close range.

The smallest bodybuilder in the world

Guinness World Records Aditya "Romeo" Dev(Aditya “Romeo” Dev) from India was the smallest bodybuilder in the world. With a height of only 84 cm and a weight of 9 kg, he could lift dumbbells weighing 1.5 kg and spent a lot of time improving his body. Unfortunately, he died in September 2012 due to a ruptured brain aneurysm.

The smallest lizard in the world

Haraguan sphero ( Sphaerodactylus ariasae) is the smallest reptile in the world. It is only 16-18 mm long and weighs 0.2 grams. He lives in the Jaragua National Park in the Dominican Republic.

The smallest car in the world

The Peel 50 weighs 59 kg and is the smallest production car in the world. In the early 1960s, about 50 of these cars were produced, and now only a few models remain. The car has two wheels in front and one in the back, and it reaches a speed of 16 km per hour.

The smallest horse in the world

The smallest horse in the world named Einstein was born in 2010 in Barnstead, New Hampshire, UK. At birth, she weighed less than a newborn baby (2.7 kg). Her height was 35 cm. Einstein does not suffer from dwarfism, but belongs to the Pinto horse breed.

The smallest country in the world

The Vatican is the smallest country in the world. This is a small state with an area of ​​only 0.44 sq. km and a population of 836 people who are not permanent residents. The tiny country is surrounded by St. Peter's Cathedral - the spiritual center of Roman Catholics. The Vatican itself is surrounded by Rome, Italy.

The smallest school in the world

The Kalou School in Iran has been recognized by UNESCO as the smallest school in the world. In the village where the school is located, there are only 7 families with four children: two boys and two girls, who attend the school.

The smallest kettle in the world

The smallest teapot in the world was created by a renowned ceramic master Wu Ruishen(Wu Ruishen) and it only weighs 1.4 grams.

The smallest mobile phone in the world

The Modu phone is considered the smallest mobile phone in the world according to the Guinness Book of Records. With a thickness of 76 millimeters, it weighs only 39 grams. Its dimensions are 72 mm x 37 mm x 7.8 mm. Despite its tiny size, you can make calls, send SMS messages, play MP3s and take pictures.

The smallest prison in the world

Sark Prison in the Channel Islands was built in 1856 and holds one cell for 2 inmates.

The smallest monkey in the world

Dwarf marmosets, which live in the tropical rainforests of South America, are considered the tiniest monkeys in the world. The weight of an adult monkey is 110-140 grams, and the length reaches 15 cm. Although they have rather sharp teeth and claws, they are relatively obedient and popular as exotic pets.

The smallest mail in the world

The smallest postal service WSPS (World's Smallest Postal Service) in San Francisco, USA, converts your letters into miniature form, so the recipient will have to read them with a magnifying glass.

The smallest frog in the world

Frog species Paedophryne amauensis with a length of 7.7 millimeters, it lives only in Papua New Guinea, and is the smallest frog and the smallest vertebrate in the world.

The smallest house in the world

The world's smallest house of an American company Tumbleweed architect Jay Shafer is smaller than some people's toilet. Although this house is only 9 sq. meters looks tiny, it contains everything you need: a workplace, a bedroom, a bathroom with shower and toilet.

The smallest dog in the world

In terms of height, the smallest dog in the world according to the Guinness Book of Records is considered a dog Boo Boo- Chihuahua with a height of 10.16 cm and a weight of 900 grams. She lives in Kentucky, USA.

In addition, the title of the smallest dog in the world claims Macy- a terrier from Poland with a height of only 7 cm and a length of 12 cm.

The smallest park in the world

Mill Ends Park in Portland, Oregon, USA, it is the smallest park in the world with a diameter of only 60 cm. On a small circle located at the intersection of the roads, there is a butterfly pool, a small Ferris wheel and miniature statues.

The smallest fish in the world

Fish species Paedocypris progenetica from the carp family, found in peat bogs, it grows to only 7.9 millimeters in length.

The smallest man in the world

72-year-old Nepalese Chandra Bahadur Dangi(Chandra Bahadur Dangi) with a height of 54.6 cm was recognized as the shortest man and man in the world.

The smallest woman in the world

The shortest woman in the world is Yoti Amge(Jyoti Amge) from India. On her 18th birthday, a girl with a height of 62.8 cm became the smallest woman in the world.

Smallest police station

This small telephone booth in Carabella, Florida, USA is considered to be the smallest working police station.

The smallest baby in the world

In 2004 Rumaisa Rahman(Rumaisa Rahman) became the smallest newborn baby. She was born at the 25th week and weighed only 244 grams, and her height was 24 cm. Her twin sister Hiba weighed almost twice as much - 566 grams with a height of 30 cm. Their mother suffered from severe pre-eclampsia, which can lead to giving birth to smaller children.

The smallest sculptures in the world

British sculptor Ullard Wigan(Willard Wigan), who suffered from dyslexia, did not do well in school, and found solace in creating miniature works of art that were invisible to the naked eye. His sculptures are placed in the eye of a needle, reaching a size of 0.05 mm. His recent works, which are called nothing less than the "eighth wonder of the world", do not exceed the size of a human blood cell.

The smallest teddy bear in the world

Teddy bear Mini-fluff created by a German sculptor Bettina Kaminski(Bettina Kaminski) has become the smallest hand-sewn teddy bear with movable legs measuring only 5 mm.

Smallest bacteria

Smallest virus

Although scientists still argue about what is considered "alive" and what is not, most biologists do not classify viruses as a living organism, since they cannot reproduce and are not capable of exchange outside the cell. However, a virus can be smaller than any living organism, including a bacterium. The smallest single-stranded DNA virus is porcine circovirus ( Porcine circovirus). Its shell is only 17 nanometers in diameter.

Smallest objects visible to the naked eye

The smallest object visible to the naked eye is 1 millimeter. This means that under the necessary conditions you will be able to see the common amoeba, ciliate shoe and even a human egg.

The smallest particle in the universe

Over the past century, science has taken a huge step towards understanding the vastness of the universe and its microscopic building materials. However, when it comes to the smallest observable particle in the universe, some difficulties arise.

At one time the atom was considered the smallest particle. Then scientists discovered the proton, neutron and electron. Now we know that by colliding particles together (as, for example, in the Large Hadron Collider), they can be broken into even more particles, such as quarks, leptons and even antimatter... The problem is just determining which is less.

But at the quantum level, size becomes irrelevant because the laws of physics we are used to do not apply. So some particles have no mass, some have negative mass. The solution to this question is the same as dividing by zero, that is, impossible.

The smallest hypothetical object in the universe

Considering what has been said above that the concept of size is inapplicable at the quantum level, one can turn to the well-known string theory in physics.

While this is a rather controversial theory, it suggests that subatomic particles are composed of vibrating strings that interact to create things like mass and energy. And although such strings have no physical parameters, the human tendency to justify everything leads us to the conclusion that these are the smallest objects in the Universe.