Following the 'tinks' In August 2009, Austin and graduate student Eric Rittmeyer were collecting and recording the mating calls of frogs at night in a tropical forest near the village of Amau in ...

Before these discoveries, the record for the smallest vertebrate was held by the New Guinea Amau frog, at 7 millimeters long, and a freshwater dwarf goby fish, at 7.9 millimeters. Dr. Toledo’s ...

The unimaginably tiny frog, averaging just 7.7 millimetres from snout to butt, has now earned the distinction of being the smallest vertebrate in the world. Named after the Amau River in Papua New ...

NEW ORLEANS - A frog that can perch on the tip of your pinkie with room to spare has been claimed as the world's smallest vertebrate species, out-tinying a fish that got the title in 2006.