You’re looking at images of the world’s two smallest frog species — Paedophryne dekot (the top two) and P. verrucosa (bottom two) — recently discovered by researchers in southeastern New Guinea.

A tiny Brazilian frog about the size of a pea may threaten the current record-holder for the world’s smallest vertebrate. The flea toad Brachycephalus pulex, which is actually a frog species, was ...

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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the 19th century, the German zoologist Christian Bergmann pondered a simple ...

A team of herpetologists at the Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz just reported that a tiny frog found only in a hilltop forest in southern Bahia, Brazil, may be the smallest vertebrate in the world ...

Researchers have identified a species of frog new to science. The Indonesian amphibian is the size of a quarter, unlike its two-pound cousins, and has tiny fangs. Nearly uniquely among amphibians, ...