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Re:‘Smallest reptile on earth’ discovered in Madagascar by Wowfunhappy on Sunday February 07, 2021 @11:15AM (#26055942)
It’s just meant to give a rough visual. The article provides the exact length.
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Re:‘Smallest reptile on earth’ discovered in Madagascar by andrewflnr on Sunday February 07, 2021 @11:22AM (#26055987)
It fails to give a rough visual, though. The picture of it on a fingertip is much better for that.
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Re:‘Smallest reptile on earth’ discovered in Madagascar by michaelmrose on Sunday February 07, 2021 @06:33PM (#26059247)
Fingertips vary in size as well if you want to be maximally pedantic.
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Re:‘Smallest reptile on earth’ discovered in Madagascar by andrewflnr on Sunday February 07, 2021 @09:11PM (#26060071)
Yeah, but not through nearly as many orders of magnitude as "seeds".
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Re:‘Smallest reptile on earth’ discovered in Madagascar by Wowfunhappy on Sunday February 07, 2021 @09:24PM (#26060133)
If you leave out massive outliers like coconuts (which I highly suspect are not what 99.9% of people think of when they think of "seeds"—I realize that's not the case for you), I think the variation would actually be quite similar.
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Re:‘Smallest reptile on earth’ discovered in Madagascar by meetups323 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @08:44PM (#26084916)
Poppy seed to mango seed are all "reasonable" seeds IMO. And that's a pretty darn large range, I'd expect almost all chameleons to fall within it.
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