Three Madagascan frog species catalogued in a recently published PLoS ONE study boast a fittingly witty set of names. As lead author Mark Scherz, an evolutionary biologist at Munich’s Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, writes for the Conversation, the trio of tiny amphibians—the largest could comfortably sit on your thumbnail, while the smallest is roughly as long as a paper staple—constitute the newly minted “Mini” genus: In full, their scientific names are Mini mum, Mini scule and Mini ature.
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