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The world's smallest frog is a tiny species discovered in New Guinea, known as paedophryne amauensis. Discovered in 2010, it was only described in January 2012. Not only is it the world's smallest frog; it is also the world's smallest known vertebrate, to date. This little frog is about the size of a house fly - just 7 mm long. the tree frog.

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