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Brazilian flea toad may be the world’s smallest vertebrate

Male Brachycephalus pulex frogs are so small that two of them can sit side by side on a pinky nail

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Two year old English springer spaniel, Freya, has been trained to detect great crested newts

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Newt-sniffing dog called Freya is helping to locate elusive amphibians

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Why we should do more to protect frogs and toads

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Why we should do more to protect frogs and toads

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Mexican burrowing caecilian (Dermophis mexicanus)

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Weird skin-eating amphibians have no legs due to snake-like mutation

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Mexican spadefoot toad tadpoles

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Tadpole embryos grow strong jaws if they sense shrimp in the water

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How poisonous amphibians evolve bright colours to warn predators off

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Cardioglossa melanogaster, a species of African frog

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Fungus that kills frogs and salamanders is rapidly spreading in Africa

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A fungal disease affecting some amphibians may have caused malaria to surge in Costa Rica and Panama

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Amphibian deaths in Central America led to malarial mosquito surge

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A pobblebonk frog (Limnodynastes terraereginae) in south-east Queensland, Australia

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Pobblebonk frogs have a weird trick for surviving very acidic pools

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Brachycephalus ferruginus, a miniaturized frog from the Atlantic Forest of southern Brazil.

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Tiny pumpkin toadlet frogs are very clumsy jumpers and now we know why

Pumpkin toadlets are only 1 centimetre long – and the minuscule size of their balance organs might explain why they jump so haphazardly

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Watch salamanders 'skydive' in a miniature wind tunnel

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Red salamander found in Panamanian forest is a new species

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Acoustic camera reveals how calls from male frogs attract females

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Male toad clings to female for 5 months waiting for chance to mate

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