Smallest known fish discovered in threatened Sumatran swampland

SCIENTISTS say they have discovered the world’s smallest known fish in threatened swampland in Indonesia.

The fish, a member of the carp family, has a translucent body and a head unprotected by a skeleton.

“This is one of the strangest fish that I’ve seen in my whole career,” Ralf Britz, a zoologist at the Natural History Museum in London, said. “It’s tiny, it lives in acid and it has these bizarre grasping fins. I hope we’ll have time to find out more about them before their habitat disappears completely.”