new microfrog discovered

[twoeleven]

pretty picture shamelessly nicked from the beeb, since it's a derivative of a picture from the frog's discoverers.

A frog species that appears to be the world's smallest has been discovered in Papua New Guinea by a US-based team.

At 7mm (0.27 inches) long, Paedophryne amauensis may be the world's smallest vertebrate - the group that includes mammals, fish, birds and amphibians.

The researchers also found a slightly larger relative, Paedophryne swiftorum.

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from the beeb

original paper in PLoS: Ecological Guild Evolution and the Discovery of the World's Smallest Vertebrate by rittmeyer et al.