Scale & Structure Explorer
Switch between length and mass. Bars are normalized only within the selected dimension, and every record keeps its measurement basis visible so a snout–vent length is never silently treated as total length.
Scale explorer
Length and mass are separate dimensions. The explorer keeps source-reported basis visible rather than manufacturing a single ranking.
Interpretation
Visual alignment helps comparison, but the source basis and specimen context still determine what can be claimed.
Paedophryne amauensis is reported by snout–vent length. Brookesia nana has both snout–vent and total-length figures in its primary paper. This explorer uses a declared display measurement, not a hidden conversion.
The primary frog and chameleon papers discuss structural consequences or correlates of very small body size. This release links those claims to their sources instead of generalizing one mechanism to all tiny animals.
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