The world’s second-smallest vertebrate has been discovered—a tiny toad living in a Brazilian rainforest. Researchers measured the flea toad at just over a quarter-inch in length (6.95 ...

I’ve shared news of several species of extremely tiny frogs and toads, commonly known as flea-toads or toadlets (read more here and here). These tiny amphibians are remarkable because they are ...

Scientists have recently described one of the world’s tiniest vertebrates: an adorable miniature toad species found in Brazil. They reported their findings in the journal PeerJ. Strangely ...

That was just a year after he first smoked TOAD VENOM in a bid to treat his substance addiction. The practise involves venom being extracted from the glands of the Sonoran Desert toad, dried into ...

This tiny creature, a flea toad, is so small it can fit on the tip of your finger. Interestingly, it looks smaller than some of the known ant species. A team of scientists from the State ...

dacnis is genetically different from other species in its group. This makes it the seventh flea-toad species known to science, and the second-smallest vertebrate species known on the planet.

The findings are published in the journal PeerJ. B. dacnis is the seventh species of flea toad described in the genus Brachycephalus. Until recently, the genus was known mainly for brightly ...