In a strange instance of life's art following art's art, a researcher has discovered tiny letters and numbers in the eyes of the famous Leonardo da Vinci painting.
Researchers at ChevronTexaco in Richmond, Calif., have discovered tiny diamond fragments of a wide variety of shapes and sizes within crude oil from the Gulf of Mexico.
Just last summer, scientists discovered tiny iron crystals in the nose of rainbow trout, a close relative of the sockeye, that allow the fish to detect the changes in the earth's magnetic field.
Turn again, and you see the "smallest mammal ever," a 50-million-year-old 1.5-inch Batodonoides, reconstructed from a recently discovered "tiny fossil jaw": it looks like a jumbo mosquito with teeth, meriting an urgent, quick swat.
A leading Indonesian paleoanthropologist who doubts that a recently discovered, tiny 18,000-year-old hominid is really a new species has taken the matter into his own hands.
But over the past 16 years, scientists have discovered tiny primates in Asia that many think are the earliest known anthropoids, such as the 45-million-year-old Eosimias from Myanmar, says paleontologist Christopher Beard of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Together, they discovered tiny molecular machines.
As I worked toward the forehead I discovered a tiny silver pellet, the fox's tiny cranium bruised crimson underneath.
Deciding the dishwasher was suddenly on the fritz, I discovered that tiny fingers had simply re-set it to "Rinse and hold".
Booty Worshippers may have noticed this piece didn't make it to the show, it's because I discovered a tiny dot of ink right before I went to send it out!
