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World's Smallest Frogs Tinier Than a Penny
By Jennifer Welsh
Published December 14, 2011
| LiveScience
The two new tiny frogs discovered in New Guinea, the tiniest in the world. The top frogs are examples of P. dekot and the lower two are P. verrucosa.
Smaller than a penny, two newly discovered frog species are considered the smallest ever found. The pipsqueaks live in Papua New Guinea and run about 0.4 inches (8-to-9 millimeters) in length.
The two species, Paedophryne dekot and Paedophryne verrucosa, are not only the smallest frogs ever discovered, they are also the smallest of a group of animals called tetrapods (four-legged animals with backbones). The duo rounds out the Paedophryne genus, which already contained two other, slightly larger, frog species first described in 2002....
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/14/worlds-smallest-frogs-tinier-than-penny/#ixzz1jGRMhgRJ
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By Jennifer Welsh
Published December 14, 2011
| LiveScience
The two new tiny frogs discovered in New Guinea, the tiniest in the world. The top frogs are examples of P. dekot and the lower two are P. verrucosa.
Smaller than a penny, two newly discovered frog species are considered the smallest ever found. The pipsqueaks live in Papua New Guinea and run about 0.4 inches (8-to-9 millimeters) in length.
The two species, Paedophryne dekot and Paedophryne verrucosa, are not only the smallest frogs ever discovered, they are also the smallest of a group of animals called tetrapods (four-legged animals with backbones). The duo rounds out the Paedophryne genus, which already contained two other, slightly larger, frog species first described in 2002....
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/14/worlds-smallest-frogs-tinier-than-penny/#ixzz1jGRMhgRJ
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/57832000/jpg/_57832300_austin5807dime.jpg
