A tiny frog endemic to the state of Bahia on Brazil’s Atlantic coast may have just earned the title of the smallest vertebrate in the world. The Brazilian flea toad, or Brachycephalus pulex, was first ...

A team of herpetologists at the Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz just reported that a tiny frog found only in a hilltop forest in southern Bahia, Brazil, may be the smallest vertebrate in the world ...

London - At half the size of a Smartie, maybe it’s not that surprising that this tiny frog hasn’t been spotted before. Dwarfed by a US dime, this black and red speckled creature has been declared the ...

A Brazilian flea toad’s head is too tiny to bear its many crowns. Solé, of the Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz in Ilhéus, Brazil, and colleagues discovered the diminutive male amphibian among 46 ...

Three new types of frog have been discovered in a remote part of the Andes. The secretive species were found during a series of gruelling expeditions between 2021 and 2024 to the cloud-shrouded peaks ...