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This adorable new species is so tiny that it grows up in the water droplets of bamboo stems

Picture a button, a pencil eraser, or a dime. Those small-scale objects are the same size as a new species of poison dart frog, the Ranitomeya hwata. At 15 millimeters, it’s the smallest frog ever ...
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One of the tiniest frogs ever is discovered in Brazil, defying size limits

A frog smaller than a pencil eraser has hopped into the record books as the one of the smallest vertebrates known to science. Researchers formally described the species in late October 2024 after ...