Tiniest Vertebrate On Earth
photo credit: Rittmeyer EN, Allison A, Grundler MC, Thompson DK, Austin CC / PLoS ONE
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This little guy is officially the smallest vertebrate on the planet, averaging 7.7 millimeters in size, less than one-third of an inch. Named Paedophryne amauensis, the new species of frog was discovered in Papua New Guinea, where it lives in leaf detritus on the rainforest floor.
(via This Newly Discovered Frog Is the World’s Smallest Vertebrate | Popular Science and The Daily What)
