Scientists have discovered the Old World’s smallest species of frog living inside pitcher plants in the jungles of Southeast Asia’s Borneo.
The micro frogs, named Microhyla nepenthicola, grow to only 0.4 to 0.5 inches long — about the size of a pea. It was discovered living along the edge of a road in Kubah National Park in Borneo by a team of scientists searching for the world’s lost amphibians, species considered to be extinct that may still have remnant populations.
“I saw some specimens in museum collections that are over 100 years old,” biologist Indraneil Das, one of frog discovers, said in a press release. “Scientists presumably thought they were juveniles of other species, but it turns out they are adults of this newly-discovered micro species.”
Read more at Wired (Thanks @UKgnome and @XxLadyClaireXx)
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I wonder what it tastes like.
I love frogs! Must be so exciting to discover a new species!
aww, so cute! and it actually lives inside the pitcher plant? what a great example of symbiotic cooperation. we should make that frog an ambassador!
Is that an adult? If yes, I the babies must be really tiny.