Sunday, January 1, 2012

World's tiniest frog - a new record

About the size of a Tic Tac, these miniaturized frogs were discovered in the forests of southeastern Papua New Guinea.  One of the two new species of frogs was given the scientific name Paedophryne dekot.  The species name 'dekot' is the word for "very small" in Daga, the native language. (photo credit: Kraus, 2011)

  

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