Since yesterday we posted the world’s largest insect here is the other side of the spectrum with the smallest frog on the planet (so far).
Field work by researcher Fred Kraus from Bishop Museum, Honolulu has found the world’s smallest frogs in southeastern New Guinea. This also makes them the world’s smallest tetrapods (non-fish vertebrates). The frogs belong to the genus Paedophryne, all of whose species are extremely small, with adults of the two new species – named Paedophryne dekot and Paedophryne verrucosa – only 8-9 mm in length.
