There’s an old rhetorical question concerning how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Well, I can’t answer that, but I can tell you how many of the Old World’s tiniest frogs can sit on the end of a pencil. If we’re talking about the Microhyla nepenthicola, a super-tiny frog that lives on the island of Borneo, that’s probably quite a few frogs. After all, the largest specimen of that frog is less than a half-inch in size!
The creature was discovered by Dr. Indraneil Das from the University of Malaysia Sarawak’s Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation. Interestingly, the frog is already prevalent in museums, it’s just that nobody recognized it as an entirely-new species of hopper: ““Scientists presumably thought they were juveniles of other species, but it turns out they are adults of this newly-discovered micro species,” said Dr. Das.
Score another super-cool animal for Borneo, huh? That place is an animal wonderland!
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