rhamphotheca: Tiny Frog, Discovered in 2009, Fits On a Human Fingertip The frog, dubbed Noble’s Pygmy frog (Noblella pygmaea), is the smallest ever found in the Andes and one of the tiniest amphibians in the world. The amphibian, with an average length of about 0.45 in (11.4 mm) and an unusually long forefinger, was discovered during field work in the highlands of Peru’s Manu National Park… (read more: Live Science)   (photo: Alessandro Catenazzi, UC Berkeley)

rhamphotheca:

Tiny Frog, Discovered in 2009, Fits On a Human Fingertip

The frog, dubbed Noble’s Pygmy frog (Noblella pygmaea), is the smallest ever found in the Andes and one of the tiniest amphibians in the world. The amphibian, with an average length of about 0.45 in (11.4 mm) and an unusually long forefinger, was discovered during field work in the highlands of Peru’s Manu National Park…

(read more: Live Science)   (photo: Alessandro Catenazzi, UC Berkeley)