Wednesday, January 11, 2012

World's Tiniest vertebrate

  • The discovery of a new frog species in New Guinea is pretty big, but the frogs arent.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • LSUs Chris Austin recently discovered two new species of frogs in New Guinea, one of which is now the worlds tiniest known vertebrate, averaging only 7.7 millimeters in size – less than one-third of an inch.
  • (PhysOrg)
  • The worlds tiniest known vertebrate – a species of frog that fits in the centre of a dime – has been discovered in New Guinea. At 7.
  • (CBC)
  • Tiniest Vertebrate On Earth Paedophryne amauensis is the smallest The wee frog ousts a small Indonesian fish as the world's tiniest backboned creature.
  • (Popular Science)
  • This means that the tiniest of frogs could only have evolved from Ecological Guild Evolution and the Discovery of the World's Smallest Vertebrate. PLoS ONE http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.
  • (DISCOVER)

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