World’s Smallest Vertebrate Species

Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 08:50 in Biology & Nature

The world’s smallest-known vertebrate species, discovered by LSU’s Chris Austin, is a tiny frog called Paedophryne amanuensis, which averages around 7.7 millimeters in length and fits in the center of a U.S. dime.

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