A small (1-mm [0.04-in] -long Peruvian beetle (Phytotelmatrichis osopaddington) was found in tiny pools of water that collect within crevasses of tropical plants.
Prepaid telephone cards and soft drinks, often distributed via informal networks, can be found in tiny stalls in the most remote corners of Africa, despite all the difficulties with transport.In Ghana Barclays, a British bank, started working with "Susu collectors", who gather savings daily from informal traders without access to banking, to keep their money safe.
Named after a Greek princess who was changed into a bat after refusing to worship the god Dionysus, or Bacchus, the tiny mammal has been found in caves in North Yorkshire and Sussex.
And tiny worms have been found in fractures in rocks 1.3 km deep in a South African mine.
Perhaps clues can be found in their tiny body of work.
The chunkiest nations overall are found in the tiny Pacific islands and Kuwait, where over three-quarters of adults are overweight and over half are obese.
Seven stowaways were stopped from entering Britain after being found in a tiny purpose-built hideaway inside a van at the port of Calais.
At lunchtime, the chef Ian Riley can typically be found in the tiny, bustling bistro, creating delicious modern dishes like courgette fritters with watercress, peas and ewe cheese (lunch entrees start at £4.50, or $6.90 at $1.53 to the pound).
As our colleague Alan Cowell reports, Britain's code-breakers are stumped by an encrypted handwritten message from World War II that was found in a tiny red canister attached to the leg of a long-dead carrier pigeon in a household chimney in Surrey, England.
For them, the answer was found in the tiny home movement which inspired them to build their little house.
