Scientists Discover Pea-Sized Frog In Borneo

Scientists in Borneo don't need to kiss this frog - he's already their little prince charming .Researches say they've found a new kind of frog that might be the smallest such amphibian outside the Americas.
The pea-sized frog , dubbed Microhyla nepenticola , measures between 10.6 and 12.8 millimeters in length, making it small enough to live insides puddles that accumulate in picter plants in the forests of the Southeast Asian island.
Some frogs eat flies . This tiny amphibian is not much bigger than one. The Microhyla nepenthicola , a newly discovered speices of frog, lives in  the jungle  on the island of Borneo in Malaysia. It is barely larger than a pea.
Despite the frog's small size , Robin Moore , amphibian conservation officer with  Conservation Internatoinal , says the tiny speices represents a big scientific discovery.
"Such small speices are very interesting because  they're really reached the boundaries of what is possible in the animal world," Moore said. "These are some of the smallest tetrapods - or four-legged organisms - in the world."
"There sized is very interesting from an evolutionary point of view," Moore added. "what it allows these frogs to do is ex[loit new habitats. In this case , the miniature frogs use their small size to live inside a pitcher plant - a kind of flora that feeds off of decomposing organic matter it collects inside a picter-shaped chalice.
The frogs lay their eggs on the plant, and the tadpoles mature in puddles inside the plant's pitcher. While the plant provides a safe habitat for the frogs, its unclear  what, it anything , the tiny amphibians give back to their botanical abode.
"I'm  not sure if [the pitcher plant ] is getting much out of it , but maybe the tadpoles or the frogs are excerting things into the water that the plant is using as a food source," Moore speculated.
Just a handful of speices of frogs are thought to be smaller , such as the Brazil's gold frog and Cuba's Eleutherodactylus iberia. And this newfound frog is the smallest animal in the  Old World , the researches wrote in an article in Zootaxa (PDF)
The diminutive frogs are so tiny they were  once overlooked  bt scientists.
Lead researcher Indraneil das told The Christian Science  Monitor  that scientists had actually discovered the frog more than 100 years ago  but "presumably thought they were juveniles of other speices," Thankfully , for Das, these  puny frogs happen to have big vouces.
das and his research partner , Alexander Hass , were in Kubah National Park when they heard the  tiny frogs making calls (listen here ) a behavior only exhibited by adult frogs.
 Das eventually trapped one  specimen in a clean white daiper he had brought  along for his baby son, acording to the New York Post.
"It's a call that actually gave it away," Moore said.
My spin : Scientists are  finding new speices all the time, so lets help put  a halt to global warming  to save the speices we have and the ones that's being discovered each day....we are have a part to play in this game....but hey, that's just me.
Kicking back and keeping it real .