12/19/2011

Smallest Frog Found

According to a recent study , two new species of frog have been discovered, which are smaller in size than any other. 
Paedophryne dekot—dekot means "very small" in the local Daga language—is about 8.5 to 9 millimeters long. The bumpy-skinned P. verrucosa, meaning "full of warts" in Latin, is an average of 8.8 to 9.3 millimeters in length.The previous tiny titleholders, also frogs in the Paedophyrne genus, were about ten millimeters long.

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