Another goal is to build a 1-gram tag that can be used on birds and amphibians too tiny to be outfitted safely with existing devices.
Unfortunately, focus groups are rife with problems: bored participants rush to judgement, are heavily influenced by the latent actions of the research director and their surrounding peers, and, are by nature, too tiny to be representative of the national population.
The icequakes discovered by Dr Peng and his colleagues were too tiny to cause serious damage, but a tremor that happened in Antarctica itself might be a different matter.
But these pools may be short-lived, and the frogs are too tiny to dig their own.
Basilosaurids have a nasal opening that has shifted back far toward the eyes to form a blowhole and have flippers for forelimbs, a fluke at the end of the tail, and tiny hind limbs, too tiny to support the body weight on land.
Why is everyone working to "ban the bead?" Super tiny, but insidiously dangerous, these long-lasting micro-plastic particles wash down our drains, and because they are too tiny to be filtered by municipal sewer systems, they travel directly into the ocean.
If, on the other hand, one assumes that all gene families are explained by lateral gene transfer only, then the vertical component of genome evolution disappears, and ancestral genome sizes become too tiny to support life.
The icequakes discovered by Dr Peng and his colleagues are of course too tiny to cause such a collapse, but they might quicken the pace.
She emphasizes that all studies of sex differences have shown the overlap between the sexes to be enormous and the genuine differences to be too tiny to hamstring us forever.
Large surveys are subject to respondents' notoriously bad memories, focus groups are too tiny to be nationally representative, and the Twitterverse is too liberal and young.
