Few can resist the appeal of an adorable animal; from diddy chameleons to cute baby cows, the world is full of species that ...

Meet B. dacnis: a new 7 mm flea toad from Brazil’s Atlantic Rainforest, one of the smallest vertebrates ever discovered.

Researchers say the flea toad measures just 6.95 millimeters in length and can fit on the tip of a finger. The post ...

The world’s second-smallest vertebrate has been discovered—a tiny flea toad living on the forest floor in a Brazilian ...

The smallest vertebrates so far discovered are the flea-toads, which live at the limit for how small any vertebrate can possibly get.

Sleep is one of the most mysterious, yet ubiquitous components of our biology. It has been described in all major groups of animals, including worms, jellyfish, insects or cephalopods, and in all ...

Flea toads, as some species in the genus Brachycephalus are known, are less than 1 cm long in adulthood. Its size is far ...

The world’s second-smallest vertebrate has been discovered ... "There are small toads with all the characteristics of large toads except for their size. This genus is different.