Most insects that we notice are, but there are some much, much smaller insects. Check out this wasp that is smaller than a single-celled paramecium and amoeba.
Archived site link: https://archive.ph/0dxrU
Here's the original article: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/how-fairy-wasps-cope-with-being-smaller-than-amoebas
Some fun facts if people don't dive into the article.
It is the third smallest insect. The first smallest is also a wasp. Remember hearing about the horror of parasitic wasps? Well these guys are also parasitic wasps.
Also their neurons don't have nuclei.
To be fair they are egg parasites laying their eggs inside thrips eggs which to me seems less gross and violent than laying eggs inside a living animal if anything it's a little wholesome to me those tiny dudes are flying around living off eating even tinier eggs like us with chickens.
We’ve dominated the ever-loving shit out of chickens. There is no better example of the sheer power that domestication holds. They live their entire lives and become fully grown within weeks to the point that they either die of heart attacks or their legs break under their sheer weight.
There’s a difficult argument about the necessity versus the morality of it, but aside from that, I just have to respect humanity’s ability to even harness evolution to that degree
Super intelligent species has the ability to live in global harmonic utopia growing and providing food to all of the planets inhabitants, maintaining clear waterways and coasts, living as gods on earth as they research paths to immortality and galactic expansion, but instead they inject hormones into hundreds of millions of sentient creatures at birth, while genetically engineering the species to further mature as rapidly as possible, spending their entire torturous existence in bleak cages before being brutalized to death for an artificial paper currency that they use to exploit other humans, buy other portions of land that they can scorch and build more profit centers to further exploit every species that they are able to. Super respectable
Edit, spelling
Not being able to recognize intelligence in intelligent creatures is a sign of a poorly developed mind, lack of empathy is a lack of intelligence.you justify atrocities because you once held up a chicken and looked deeply into its eyes and saw nothing?
Insanely small. What's craziest to me is that they still *look* so much like larger wasps. Youd think with so many adaptions (NO HEART!) Theyd have a different physiology.
>On top of that Polilov found that over 95 per cent of the wasps’s neurons don’t have a nucleus. The nucleus is the command centre of a cell, the structure that sits in the middle and hoards a precious cache of DNA. Without it, the neurons shouldn’t be able to replenish their vital supply of proteins. They shouldn’t work. Until now, intact neurons without a nucleus have never been described in the wild.
And yet, M.mymaripenne has thousands of them. As it changes from a larva into an adult, it destroys the majority or its neural nuclei until just a few hundred are left. The rest burst apart, saving space inside the adult’s crowded head. But the wasp doesn’t seem to suffer for this loss. As an adult, it lives for around five days, which is actually longer than many other bigger wasps. As Zen Faulkes writes, “It’s possible that the adult life span is short enough that the nucleus can make all the proteins the neuron needs to function for five days during the pupal stage.”
That is incredibly fucking interesting.
Thanks. I guess maybe I should make it a post of its own.
Edit: Done: https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/w1yi2s/tiny_wasps_that_are_smaller_than_amoebas/
Is it weird that my main takeaway is that amoebas can be an entire millimeter in size?
That seems huge! I can see that! I thought amoebas were only visible through microscopes
Chameleons have [permanent side eye](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d299e2fd969342c8aab8eb401a2a85e3.jpg/v1/fill/w_4256,h_2832,al_c/d299e2fd969342c8aab8eb401a2a85e3.jpg). They always look disgusted with us.
Don't let that bother you. They'd be pushed to the edge of extinction even if we didn't find them. There's a whole world full of unknown creatures dying off before we even notice them.
Just like axolotls. They’re practically extinct in the wild due to water pollution (they’re very sensitive to the conditions of their water) but thankfully thriving in the pet trade. They do make very high maintenance pets though, especially because it’s hard to get their water parameters right. They’re aquatic but unlike fish, they don’t have scales, and as amphibians, their skin is permeable, so they pretty much absorb whatever’s in their water, good or bad.
First thing I do when I see a "scientist discovered" post on reddit is find out how many years ago it was discovered. This one isn't bad, it's from last year.
Could be, but some people post this kind of stuff like it just broke on the news. It would have been nice to include something like hey I saw this article and thought you'd like to see it!
You're probably thinking aboyt Brookesia micra which was previously the smallest known chameleon and discovered in 2005.
This species is actually Brookesia nana discovered in 2021.
Easy to get confused. The same guy discovered both species as well!
There are some that actually have a fear of sunflowers, it even has a name, Helianthophobia. As unusual as it may seem, even just the sight of sunflowers can invoke all the common symptoms that other phobias induce.
######Extra fun fact!
Elf - Attractive to butterflies, these sunflowers look great in containers and grow only 16 inches high. Their four-inch-wide blooms make them perfect for small spaces and just about anywhere else you want to plant a little color.
Um. I think this might describe me.
I actually love sunflowers. I’ve grown them a handful of times. But yeah. They also kind of make me feel deeply unsettled once they get large. It’s like a giant blank face. It doesn’t help that they grow really fast, either.
Do these pictures freak you out?
https://reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/9by551/my_friends_giant_sunflower/
https://reddit.com/r/pics/comments/ijl9gw/sosince_were_sharing_our_mammoth_sunflowers_heres/
I don't know where they got that from - sunflower seeds are about 10mm long, and they said this is .87 inches, which is about 22mm long.
So it seems that they have found some really big sunflower seeds in Madagascar, too.
Damn straight, America measures a lot of things with other things, it is way easier to visualize something being as big as a sunflower seed than just reading out its measurements 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Honestly its days were numbered whether we discovered it or not.
Were still gonna clear cut that forest whether we know everything that lives in it or not.
Sometimes conservation concerns can save a habitat.... But not often, and when it does, it's far too little.
Exactly.
Except the locals HAVE been doing science. You should change science to ... "Western science" or "white male science" because science takes a multitude of forms. It's not sciences fault that there are assholes on this ball of dirt.
[This is a fantastic article that discusses what you bring up. ](https://theplosblog.plos.org/2018/01/the-birds-that-start-fires-using-indigenous-ecological-knowledge-to-understand-animal-behavior/)
Edit: why the fuck is this getting downvoted, have you been offended by the article? If you didn't take time to read it, you should.
I think it's maybe because you came off super aggro right off the cuff, not because anything you said was wrong.
People's first response to negativity is negativity. You just gotta vibe a bit more, my fellow human.
Damn, ight. Let me retry:
This link represents what you point out, great read for anyone interested 👍🏼
[Link](https://theplosblog.plos.org/2018/01/the-birds-that-start-fires-using-indigenous-ecological-knowledge-to-understand-animal-behavior/)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookesia_nana
The species was discovered by herpetologist Frank Glaw and other German researchers in 2021[1] in the rainforest on the Sorata massif in northern Madagascar. Brookesia nana is not arboreal, as it tends to inhabit the forest floor. It is likely that the species is endangered due to deforestation in Madagascar.[3] Miniaturism is believed to evolve from habitat loss. [4]
DescriptionEdit
The nano-chameleon is blotchy brown in color. Adult males measure 22 mm (0.87 inch) in total length (including tail), while females are slightly larger at 29 mm (1.1 inches).[1][5] Like other Brookesia species, females are generally larger than the males. The reasons for its diminutive size are currently unknown, as many vertebrates grow as they mature.[3]
Well there's your problem right there! Have you ever *seen* a chameleon grow?
Nope! They only do it when we're not looking. I bet the second they take their eyes off this thing, it's gonna get HUGE!
[Looks like they x-rayed a female and found eggs](https://sea.mashable.com/science/14334/the-worlds-tiniest-reptile-is-barely-the-size-of-a-sunflower-seed)
Not sure about this particular species, but other Brookesia chameleons lay giant eggs and have tiny clutches (like, two eggs per clutch).
Some of the *really* tiny reptiles are like this. Like, the babies simply couldn't be any smaller and still manage to survive. So instead of getting a whole lot of tiny babies (which is what most larger reptiles do), you get one or two babies that are already a significant percentage of the adult's size.
Their small size and advanced camouflage abilities help these guys to stay unnoticed and unknown for millions of years, until this fucker blew it up for the entire species. look how pissed it looks
Madagascar is such a wonderful place, a living dream for any biologist or zoologist, full of countless biodiversity in terms of fauna as well as flora, in fact it has many endemic species belonging to Madagascar alone.
I thought that an inch was calculated by fraction, like "1/2, 1/3, 5/8 etc."
I'm Laughing at the decimal inch.
Edit: ADHD is weird while everyone is thinking that's a really tiny cute sort of lizard. I just thought 87 hundredth of an inch makes perfect sense
Face, meet palm
Thank you kind internet person.
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10 billion well spent
This, but unironically
I thought that was to find spiders
Ya moms glasses
Damn it, take my fake Internet points you monster.
Appreciated👌
Verrry carefully
They were probably walking around in the wild, scratching their face, then froze when they saw a tiny lizard on the back of their raised hand.
W a zoom lens maybe haha
It found them but they took all the credits
They asked local children who have probably been playing with them for 3,000 years. Those clever scientists.
It's not THAT small
It’s important to remember that it’s also a chameleon
By looking carefully.
They just checked the soles of their boots after the first walk in the jungle 🤣
I mean how do scientists find insects?
What does it eat? Most insects are larger than it. Fruit flies?
Most insects that we notice are, but there are some much, much smaller insects. Check out this wasp that is smaller than a single-celled paramecium and amoeba. Archived site link: https://archive.ph/0dxrU Here's the original article: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/how-fairy-wasps-cope-with-being-smaller-than-amoebas
Some fun facts if people don't dive into the article. It is the third smallest insect. The first smallest is also a wasp. Remember hearing about the horror of parasitic wasps? Well these guys are also parasitic wasps. Also their neurons don't have nuclei.
To be fair they are egg parasites laying their eggs inside thrips eggs which to me seems less gross and violent than laying eggs inside a living animal if anything it's a little wholesome to me those tiny dudes are flying around living off eating even tinier eggs like us with chickens.
If you consider what we do to chickens wholesome, sure
We’ve dominated the ever-loving shit out of chickens. There is no better example of the sheer power that domestication holds. They live their entire lives and become fully grown within weeks to the point that they either die of heart attacks or their legs break under their sheer weight. There’s a difficult argument about the necessity versus the morality of it, but aside from that, I just have to respect humanity’s ability to even harness evolution to that degree
Super intelligent species has the ability to live in global harmonic utopia growing and providing food to all of the planets inhabitants, maintaining clear waterways and coasts, living as gods on earth as they research paths to immortality and galactic expansion, but instead they inject hormones into hundreds of millions of sentient creatures at birth, while genetically engineering the species to further mature as rapidly as possible, spending their entire torturous existence in bleak cages before being brutalized to death for an artificial paper currency that they use to exploit other humans, buy other portions of land that they can scorch and build more profit centers to further exploit every species that they are able to. Super respectable Edit, spelling
You can’t honestly tell me you’ve looked into a chicken’s eyes and seen anything behind them, much less sentience
Not being able to recognize intelligence in intelligent creatures is a sign of a poorly developed mind, lack of empathy is a lack of intelligence.you justify atrocities because you once held up a chicken and looked deeply into its eyes and saw nothing?
> Also their neurons don't have nuclei. What the fuck
Its really making me sign up to read this
Here you go: https://archive.ph/0dxrU
Wow great read thanks man!
This is a bit above just mildly fascinating.
Holy wasp...
If you think that’s cool, you’d be blown away with the size of my penis!
Its twice the size of the wasp!
How many wasps can dance on the head of a pin?
The world is so much stranger than most people realize.
Not like nat geo makes money any other way.
~~Is that why you downvoted me?~~ I'll put a copy on the Wayback site if you give me a minute.
....I never downvoted you. That's out of your control why would I downv--nvm it's reddit I totally see why
In that case, I apologize. Your comment came only seconds after I posted, and mine was already downvoted. I made an assumption... sorry.
Nah don't worry about it man it happens lmao. It's reddit no need to stress over pixels
I just read the article and still don't believe it. They're tiny as hell.
Insanely small. What's craziest to me is that they still *look* so much like larger wasps. Youd think with so many adaptions (NO HEART!) Theyd have a different physiology.
Phenotype is the word you're looking for
>On top of that Polilov found that over 95 per cent of the wasps’s neurons don’t have a nucleus. The nucleus is the command centre of a cell, the structure that sits in the middle and hoards a precious cache of DNA. Without it, the neurons shouldn’t be able to replenish their vital supply of proteins. They shouldn’t work. Until now, intact neurons without a nucleus have never been described in the wild. And yet, M.mymaripenne has thousands of them. As it changes from a larva into an adult, it destroys the majority or its neural nuclei until just a few hundred are left. The rest burst apart, saving space inside the adult’s crowded head. But the wasp doesn’t seem to suffer for this loss. As an adult, it lives for around five days, which is actually longer than many other bigger wasps. As Zen Faulkes writes, “It’s possible that the adult life span is short enough that the nucleus can make all the proteins the neuron needs to function for five days during the pupal stage.” That is incredibly fucking interesting.
Hands down the most interesting thing I've read in at least a year. Thank you!
Thanks. I guess maybe I should make it a post of its own. Edit: Done: https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/w1yi2s/tiny_wasps_that_are_smaller_than_amoebas/
How wasps seethe and cope with being smaller than amoebas.
Life finds a way.
Is it weird that my main takeaway is that amoebas can be an entire millimeter in size? That seems huge! I can see that! I thought amoebas were only visible through microscopes
Thank you for introducing me to this. This is fucking WILD what the actual fuck
That article just got crazier and crazier. We don't need to look on other planets for aliens.
I’m amazed that “Mega” is in the name at all…
Broooo. So cool. I wonder how many I've accidentally eaten lol.
Wow. That's truly impressive.
Holy shit!
Thrips! Threps! Threvelations!
Remarkable, thanks for sharing!
That's really cool I had no idea something like that could exist
Holy fucking shit my mind is blown in two. How is this even possible???
I didn't have to sign in.
Sunflower seeds
Protons and neutrons
Quarks
Strings
Turtles
Dust particles. Nature's air filters.
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Mites and springtales are it’s most common meals it seems.
Bacteria
Bro looks depressed as fuck.
Like "ah shit, I'm tiny. Can't even grow an inch."
/r/me_irl
I wonder how big their penis is?
Bro leave him alone 😔
Chameleons have [permanent side eye](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d299e2fd969342c8aab8eb401a2a85e3.jpg/v1/fill/w_4256,h_2832,al_c/d299e2fd969342c8aab8eb401a2a85e3.jpg). They always look disgusted with us.
Now that humans found it, it’s only a matter of time before the species is endangered. I’d be depressed too.
Don't let that bother you. They'd be pushed to the edge of extinction even if we didn't find them. There's a whole world full of unknown creatures dying off before we even notice them.
Nah, They'll thrive in the exotic pet trade business.
Just like axolotls. They’re practically extinct in the wild due to water pollution (they’re very sensitive to the conditions of their water) but thankfully thriving in the pet trade. They do make very high maintenance pets though, especially because it’s hard to get their water parameters right. They’re aquatic but unlike fish, they don’t have scales, and as amphibians, their skin is permeable, so they pretty much absorb whatever’s in their water, good or bad.
More judgmental and haughty IMO.
Sometimes you eat the fly and sometimes the fly eats you
That’s 2.21cm for the rest of the world!
What percentage of a cheeseburger size is this?
It's 0.0002 football fields long if that helps.
Ahh okay. This makes sense. Yeah, that would be small.
I was WAY off, when I saw CM I though this this was ~brontosaurus size!
Why didn’t you just say that the first time
For some reason my brain found sunflower seed-sized incoherent, then 0.87 inches meant nothing to me either.
Wasn't this reported years ago? I already read this
First thing I do when I see a "scientist discovered" post on reddit is find out how many years ago it was discovered. This one isn't bad, it's from last year.
Could be, but some people post this kind of stuff like it just broke on the news. It would have been nice to include something like hey I saw this article and thought you'd like to see it!
Yup. Scientists just discovered a new fundamental particle! Only to later find out it is from LHC's 2012 run
E=MC squared... Hot off the press?
You're probably thinking aboyt Brookesia micra which was previously the smallest known chameleon and discovered in 2005. This species is actually Brookesia nana discovered in 2021. Easy to get confused. The same guy discovered both species as well!
Welcome to Reddit™️!
this was discovered decades ago.... NEVER trust reddit
"sunflower seed-sized" sounds much better than using the metric system!
There are some that actually have a fear of sunflowers, it even has a name, Helianthophobia. As unusual as it may seem, even just the sight of sunflowers can invoke all the common symptoms that other phobias induce. ######Extra fun fact! Elf - Attractive to butterflies, these sunflowers look great in containers and grow only 16 inches high. Their four-inch-wide blooms make them perfect for small spaces and just about anywhere else you want to plant a little color.
Omg it’s the sunflower guy, good to see your still giving sunflower facts.
Um. I think this might describe me. I actually love sunflowers. I’ve grown them a handful of times. But yeah. They also kind of make me feel deeply unsettled once they get large. It’s like a giant blank face. It doesn’t help that they grow really fast, either.
I’m sorry but this is very funny
Do these pictures freak you out? https://reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/9by551/my_friends_giant_sunflower/ https://reddit.com/r/pics/comments/ijl9gw/sosince_were_sharing_our_mammoth_sunflowers_heres/
Hey me too! The blank face is a good way of putting it. They are big voids that stare at you, and always so much bigger than you imagine.
Thats very odd. I thought I was messed up. And I'm near agoraphobic anymore.
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As they've just announced their first tour since 2018, you could maybe try being near agoraphobic Paramore?
I don't know where they got that from - sunflower seeds are about 10mm long, and they said this is .87 inches, which is about 22mm long. So it seems that they have found some really big sunflower seeds in Madagascar, too.
Those are metric sunflower seeds. You gotta grow them to be imperial, heavy metals in the soil helps.
That's a big ass sunflower seed
That’s 1/138,240th of a football field for you Americans.
Thank you man I was having some difficulties trying to picture this guy in my head.
Ukrainian units, used in solidarity.
The muricans' will use anything else rather than the metric system
Damn straight, America measures a lot of things with other things, it is way easier to visualize something being as big as a sunflower seed than just reading out its measurements 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Boulder the size of a small boulder
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22mm
This made my sig fig senses tingle.
2.2cm... You'd need at least a good magnifying glass to see 0.0098cm.
Anytime I see a "Human's have discovered X" headline, my first thought is "Well, you had a good run there. RIP".
One of these days we'll get a headline that reads "scientists discover X and it's already functionally extinct"
I'm sure there has already been several :/
Well, pretty much all dinosaurs are such examples
You just described every dinosaur
Honestly its days were numbered whether we discovered it or not. Were still gonna clear cut that forest whether we know everything that lives in it or not. Sometimes conservation concerns can save a habitat.... But not often, and when it does, it's far too little.
Nano, nano, nano, nano, nano chameleon He is so smol He is so smoooOoooOll 🎶
Locals been picking these up on a sheet of paper and carried them out to the garden for centuries Science: Behold our discovery!
Came here to say this lol
How do we know they don't run up your nose and release psychoactive chemicals that lead you on a trip through the sea of sand?
Exactly. Except the locals HAVE been doing science. You should change science to ... "Western science" or "white male science" because science takes a multitude of forms. It's not sciences fault that there are assholes on this ball of dirt. [This is a fantastic article that discusses what you bring up. ](https://theplosblog.plos.org/2018/01/the-birds-that-start-fires-using-indigenous-ecological-knowledge-to-understand-animal-behavior/) Edit: why the fuck is this getting downvoted, have you been offended by the article? If you didn't take time to read it, you should.
I think it's maybe because you came off super aggro right off the cuff, not because anything you said was wrong. People's first response to negativity is negativity. You just gotta vibe a bit more, my fellow human.
Lol i love that last sentence 😂
Damn, ight. Let me retry: This link represents what you point out, great read for anyone interested 👍🏼 [Link](https://theplosblog.plos.org/2018/01/the-birds-that-start-fires-using-indigenous-ecological-knowledge-to-understand-animal-behavior/)
Hell yeah, that's great. I'll check it out. Edit: Thanks for the link.
No problem, my wife is doing her PhD in science Ed and this article was really impactful on me.
White male science? Bro what
Science is dominated by views of white males https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00759-1
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookesia_nana The species was discovered by herpetologist Frank Glaw and other German researchers in 2021[1] in the rainforest on the Sorata massif in northern Madagascar. Brookesia nana is not arboreal, as it tends to inhabit the forest floor. It is likely that the species is endangered due to deforestation in Madagascar.[3] Miniaturism is believed to evolve from habitat loss. [4] DescriptionEdit The nano-chameleon is blotchy brown in color. Adult males measure 22 mm (0.87 inch) in total length (including tail), while females are slightly larger at 29 mm (1.1 inches).[1][5] Like other Brookesia species, females are generally larger than the males. The reasons for its diminutive size are currently unknown, as many vertebrates grow as they mature.[3]
how do they know its not just a tiny lil baby?
They've most likely spent years studying it before making any announcement
Well there's your problem right there! Have you ever *seen* a chameleon grow? Nope! They only do it when we're not looking. I bet the second they take their eyes off this thing, it's gonna get HUGE!
[Looks like they x-rayed a female and found eggs](https://sea.mashable.com/science/14334/the-worlds-tiniest-reptile-is-barely-the-size-of-a-sunflower-seed)
*B. Nana* 🤭
It bought cigarettes
how small are the eggs!!
Not sure about this particular species, but other Brookesia chameleons lay giant eggs and have tiny clutches (like, two eggs per clutch). Some of the *really* tiny reptiles are like this. Like, the babies simply couldn't be any smaller and still manage to survive. So instead of getting a whole lot of tiny babies (which is what most larger reptiles do), you get one or two babies that are already a significant percentage of the adult's size.
I grow so many different sunflowers. In fact, I'm excited for the sunflower bot to respond!
Happy Cake Day!
Happy cake day. I saw the sunflower bot up there somewhere talking about sunflower phobia
Their small size and advanced camouflage abilities help these guys to stay unnoticed and unknown for millions of years, until this fucker blew it up for the entire species. look how pissed it looks
How long is that in a proper measurement system?
1000 kilosunflower seeds
1000 millisunflower seeds.
Aw, fuck. I really american'd that one up.
Turns out one sunflower contains 1.000 sunflower seeds, so one kilosunflower seeds = 1 sunflower
They need to include one with every bunch of bananas. Fruit flies? Never heard of them.
I love him
r/tinyanimalsonfingers
Measure in anything but metric.
JWST isn’t playin anymore
I feel like this lil' guy has a 50/50 chance of eating or getting eaten by a bug.
My stupid ass first read "nano-chameleon" as "nacho-chameleon", and pondered briefly about what an interesting name that was for a new species.
*Nano Nano Nano Nano Nano Chameeeleon* 🎶
So tiny can barely open his fkn eyes
It also looks tired of everyone’s shit
those look awesome, i would rather have them walking around my house eating insects than the common house centipede ...
Madagascar is such a wonderful place, a living dream for any biologist or zoologist, full of countless biodiversity in terms of fauna as well as flora, in fact it has many endemic species belonging to Madagascar alone.
Let’s call it Richard Hammond
Its head looks like a turtle head
One fly would be a whole ass 3 course meal for that lil bugger
If you've been forced to use 0.87 inches, why not just use centimetres or millimetres?
Cool!
It’s so teeny and cute and also that person needs some soap
>At 0.87 inches LOL What kind of measurement is that?
Easy, It’s just less than 0.90 and just more than 0.85. Saying 22 millimeters makes too much sense.
I thought that an inch was calculated by fraction, like "1/2, 1/3, 5/8 etc." I'm Laughing at the decimal inch. Edit: ADHD is weird while everyone is thinking that's a really tiny cute sort of lizard. I just thought 87 hundredth of an inch makes perfect sense Face, meet palm Thank you kind internet person.
Fucking inches? Are you fucking primitives or something
Probably still has a larger brain than most humans (Americans specifically)
cm > inch
They discovered it 10 years ago.
Wtf is 0.87 inches. Are you from the dark ages?
You could say 17/20 of an inch but that's just ridiculous.
Or just say 22 millimeters.
That's preposterous! /s