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PHOTOS: Coin-Size Frog Found -- One of World's Smallest
nationalgeographic ^ | March 26, 2009

Posted on 03/27/2009 1:52:52 PM PDT by JoeProBono

As the smallest known frog species in the world's second largest mountain range, this new amphibian is easy to miss.

But scientists searching the Andes mountains' upper Cosnipata Valley in southern Peru, near Cusco, spotted the coin-size creature--a member of the Noblella genus--in the leaf litter of a cloud forest between 9,925 and 10,466 feet (3,025 and 3,190 meters).

"The most distinctive character of the new species," scientists write in the February issue of the journal Copeia, "is its diminutive size." Females grow to 0.49 inch (12.4 millimeters) at most. Males make it to only 0.44 inch (11.1 millimeters).

What's most surprising is that the frog lives at such high elevations, said study co-author Alessandro Catenazzi, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. In general, larger animals are found at greater heights.


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1 posted on 03/27/2009 1:52:52 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

Its ancestors were 4 feet long, pre-global warming.


2 posted on 03/27/2009 1:55:53 PM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (my tagline is over-stimulated)
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To: BOBTHENAILER
Its ancestors were 4 feet long, pre-global warming.

Pity they evolved into the French.

3 posted on 03/27/2009 1:57:49 PM PDT by humblegunner (Where my PIE at, fool?)
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To: JoeProBono

"Yeah, I may be four-tenths of an inch long, but I got a big pair of brass ones. I got 'em off the last guy that messed with me."

}:-)4

4 posted on 03/27/2009 2:02:59 PM PDT by Moose4 (Hey RNC. Don't move toward the middle. MOVE THE MIDDLE TOWARD YOU.)
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To: JoeProBono

How long did it take for the illegal holding it to gulp it down.


5 posted on 03/27/2009 2:04:53 PM PDT by albie
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6 posted on 03/27/2009 2:05:14 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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7 posted on 03/27/2009 2:06:37 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: albie

8 posted on 03/27/2009 2:08:50 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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9 posted on 03/27/2009 2:17:42 PM PDT by Cyber Ninja (His legacy is a stain OnTheDress)
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To: JoeProBono

That a very small frog.


10 posted on 03/27/2009 2:23:10 PM PDT by txnativegop (God Bless America! (NRA-Endowment))
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To: JoeProBono
You would need to eat a million of those legs to fill you up.


11 posted on 03/27/2009 2:27:06 PM PDT by capydick ("History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid".)
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Thanks JoeProBono.

Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution.

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12 posted on 03/27/2009 3:47:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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