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    New information is flying across the globe again about the world's smallest vertebrate! It was found in Papua New Guinea. A team of researchers led by Christopher Austin of Louisiana State University (including Allen Allison of the Bishop Museum), have discovered an even smaller frog than that recently classified by Fred Kraus also from the Bishop Museum.

    The new species was named Paedophryne amauensis (pee-doh-FRY-nee AM-OU-en-sis)
    and the adult frog size measures about three-tenths of an inch long.
    Not just the world’s smallest frog, or the smallest vertebrate in PNG – it’s the world’s smallest known vertebrate.
    Impressive, in its own diminutive sort of way!

    A big congrats to Allen, who’s continuing research on the subject is far from just about documenting the smallest this or biggest that – but perhaps more interestingly, why these species evolved to be so small, and what that says about the ecological patterns of a place. It also says potentially interesting things about developmental biology – and one never knows where that sort of thing will lead.

    http://www.plosone.org/article/info:...l.pone.0029797
    Life is either an adventure... or you're not doing it right!!!

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    Re: World's smallest frog found in PNG!

    Little people?
    May I always be found beneath your contempt.

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    • #3
      Re: World's smallest frog found in Papua New Guinea!

      I've seen frogs that small here on the Big Island. It's like seeing a dot literally disappear.
      Life is what you make of it...so please read the instructions carefully.

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        Re: World's smallest frog found in Papua New Guinea!

        This story as mentioned on the Letterman show was given a different slant: Scientists discover the world's largest dime.
        Greg

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