10 of the World's Smallest Animals

Here are 10 of the worlds smallest and cutest animals. From dogs & cats to fishes
and seahorses!

Worlds Smallest Dog: 12.4 cm (4.9-inch) tall

 At 1.4 pounds and 4.9 inches tall, Ducky, a yappy short-coat Chihuahua from
Charlton (Massachusetts, USA), holds the Guinness World Record for the world's
smallest living dog (by height). Ducky succeeds Danka Kordak of Slovakia, a
Chihuahua who measured 5.4 inches tall. The smallest dog ever, according to
Guinness, was a dwarf Yorkshire terrier who stood 2.8 inches tall.
 World's Smallest Snake: 10.1 cm (4-inch) long

Leptotyphlops carlae is the world's smallest species of snake, with adults averaging
just under four inches in length. Found on the Caribbean island of Barbados, the
species --which is as thin as a spaghetti noodle and small enough to rest comfortably
on a U.S. quarter-- was discovered by Blair Hedges.

Worlds Smallest Fish: 7.9 mm (0.3-inch) long

On January 2006, the world's smallest fish was discovered on the Indonesian island
of Sumatra: a member of the carp family of fish, the Paedocypris progenetica. It is
the world's smallest vertebrate or backboned animal; only 7.9 mm (0.3 inches) long.

The title, however, is contested by 6.2 mm (0.2 in) long male anglerfish
Photocorynus spiniceps (not technically a fish but a sexual parasite) and the 7 mm
(0.27 in) long male stout infantfish Schindleria brevipinguis.

Worlds Smallest Horse: 43.18 cm (17-inch) tall

The little horse was born to Paul and Kay Goessling, who specialize in breeding
miniature horses, but even for the breed Thumbelina is particularly small: she is
thought to be a dwarf-version of the breed. At just 60 lb and 17-inch tall, the five-
 year-old Thumbelina is the worlds smallest horse.

Worlds Smallest Cat: 15.5 cm (6.1-inch) high and 49 cm (19.2-inch) long

 Meet Mr. Peebles. He lives in central Illinois, is two years old, weighs about three
pounds and is the world's smallest cat! The cat's small stature was verified by the
Guinness Book of World Records on 2004.

World's Smallest Hamster: 2.5 cm (0.9-inch) tall

Only slightly bigger than a 50p piece, PeeWee is the smallest hamster in the world.
Weighing less than an ounce, the golden hamster stopped growing when he was
three weeks old - his five brothers and sisters went on to measure between 4in and
5in.
 World's Smallest Chameleon: 1.2 cm (0.5-inch) long

The Brookesia Minima is the world's smallest species of chameleon. This one is just
half an inch. Found on the rainforest floor of Nosy Be Island off the north-west coast
of Madagascar, females tend to be larger than males.

World's Smallest Lizard: 16 mm (0.6-inch) long

So small it can curl up on a dime or stretch out on a quarter, a typical adult of the
species, whose scientific name is Sphaerodactylus ariasae is only about 16
millimeters long, or about three quarters of an inch, from the tip of the snout to the
base of the tail. It shares the title of "smallest" with another lizard species named
Sphaerodactylus parthenopion, discovered in 1965 in the British Virgin Islands.

Worlds Smallest Cattle: 81 cm (31-inch) height

The worlds smallest cattle is a rare breed of an Indian zebu called the Vechur cow.
The average height of this breed of cattle is 31 to 35 inches (81 to 91 cm). The
photo above shows a 16 year old Vechur cattle as compared to a 6 year old HF
cross-breed cow.
 World's Smallest Seahorse: 16 mm (0.6-inch) long

The creature, known as Hippocampus denise, is typically just 16 millimetres long -

smaller than most fingernails. Some were found to be just 13 mm long. H. denise
lives in the tropical waters of the western Pacific Ocean, between 13 and 90 metres
beneath the surface.