• Question: What's the smallest creature you've ever found?

    Asked by Deany to Gemma on 11 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by haay.mel.
    • Photo: Gemma Cripps

      Gemma Cripps answered on 11 Nov 2015:

      Hi Deany,

      One of the smallest creature I have ever seen is called a “copepod”. This is a creature that lives in the sea and its babies are called “nauplii”. These nauplii can be as small as 50 micrometers…. this is 30 times smaller than the size of a pin head! If you have a look at the photos in my profile, you can see what one of these “nauplii” look like 🙂

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