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Snake Girl Ellie (noelle@elekk.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2019 21:34:33 EDT Snake Girl Ellie

This week in frog science: Mark Scherz and his team have discovered a new genus of incredibly tiny frogs.
I am not making this up: the genus is Mini, and the three species so far identified are Mini mum, Mini scule, and Mini ature.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0213314
Via Dr. Scherz himself on :birdsite: : https://twitter.com/MarkScherz/status/1110974806042787845

In conversation Thursday, 28-Mar-2019 21:34:33 EDT from elekk.xyz permalink
1. Snake Girl Ellie (noelle@elekk.xyz)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2019 18:24:38 EDT Snake Girl Ellie
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  Okay, people keep insisting this is a prank because his last name means "joke", but if it's a prank it's an incredibly deep one. Mark Scherz is an established herpetologist, and this specific work has been covered by National Geographic https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/03/smallest-frog-species-discovered-mini-mum/ and the Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-newly-discovered-frog-species-are-among-worlds-smallest-180971819/ .
  In conversation Friday, 29-Mar-2019 18:24:38 EDT from elekk.xyz permalink
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  1. New staple-size frog is one of the tiniest ever discovered
    
    “Astronomically small,” the newly discovered Malagasy amphibians have brains that could sit on a pin.
  2. Meet Mini mum, Mini scule and Mini ature, Three New Frog Species Among the World's Smallest
    
    from Smithsonian
    
    The newly discovered amphibians are all about the size of a thumbnail or smaller

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