A “toadlet” in Brazil is the second-smallest vertebrate known to exist on the planet. By Sofia Quaglia At 6.95 tiny millimeters in length, this creature could fit on your fingertip. It is smaller than ...

A tiny frog endemic to the state of Bahia on Brazil’s Atlantic coast may have just earned the title of the smallest vertebrate in the world. The Brazilian flea toad, or Brachycephalus pulex, was first ...

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 much ...