Short on cash? Well, just look at what you can pick up with a penny these days! It’s a frog no bigger than a pea, discovered in the forests of Borneo. Scientists once thought it was a juvenile of a larger species, but now know this is as big as it gets.
You have an eye for detail, Katherine B.
I guess froggies don’t get any more petite than this…….!
(a mini-mini-mini pocket pet…..!)
teeniest of blorps!
It’s this recession, I tell ya! I remember when you could get a frog TEN times that size for a penny!
Itty-bitty ribbitty pee-wee pollywoggy itsy-bitsy bugsy-wugsy shrinky-dinky hippitty-hopper!
what she said!
Min Gott, supposing it climbed up my nose into my brain and had babies!
*blink blink*
*blink*
@ Hon Glad, that’s an urban legend waiting to happen right there.
Give it up for 1981! My birth year! Little toadie looks like a baked bean with eyes
@Hon Glad
Huffing frogs could lead to a croak. Don’t make me say “I toad you so”.
I shall call him … froglet!
They keep saying “pea-sized” frogs, but that thing’s smaller than most peas. Not that I’ve put a pea on a penny to check or anything . . .
*tiny little “croak”*
OH.
MY.
GAWWWWWD!
@ HonorH: not much bigger than a lentil… ***pulls penny from pocket…faints***
yay to see these on C.O.! the first article I read about these little dudes says that while they may be tiny, they croak megaloudly. Just think of a big ol’ RIBBIT coming out of a wee froglet like this’un
*headtilt* awww
So teeny!
Hon Glad, I remember Lawrence Harvey on one of the scaryest Twilight Zones.
@ nads: ’81 FTW!
Oh tiny thing! What on earth does it eat?
Ding – even tinier things!
The froggeh is soooo teenee tinee! Yeah, I’d have to say he/she is definitely smaller than a pea…
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand hovertext FTW!!!!
NO WAY! NO WAY!!!!! NOOOO WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope Froggy’s girlfriend only lives over on the next nickel, because I doubt he can hop very far when he goes a’courtin’.
Okay, try this: dig through your change and find a 1981 penny. (yeah yeah, OCD) Lay it on your desk. Stare at it, imagining tiny frog having a tete-a-tete with President Lincoln, until your brain shorts out. Repeat as necessary to fully appreciate how small this frog is.
I hope this frog isn’t penny-wise and pond-foolish.
I think I need 50 of them!
Tiniest blorp
Matchinks!! The penny is a perfect camouflage background for this teensy critter.
The link says that this frog was found on Nepenthes plants. Nepenthes are tropical carnivorous pitcher plants, and their pitcher is big – around six-ounce size, I’d guess. So-o-o-o: does the frog use the pitcher plant for a private swimming pool, or does it lurk around the edges of the pitcher and glom the insects that are about to fly or crawl in, or does the plant eat tiny frogs as well as insects? Inquiring minds want to know.
Oh my GOSH! *brain departs*
@Kathyp, whatever the facts of the matter, I think I prefer to envision a 1940s, MGM Esther Williams scenario, with teeny froggies synchronized swimming in the pitcher-poo.
scientific name sweetleseuerpeadia tinyblorpensis
Teeny ‘tocks alert!
What a squeeny leetle frog!
Slight tangent, but have any of you checked today’s Woot shirt?
figures. i saw a pea-sized toadlet in my driveway yesterday. thought i’d stalk it and get a cute-porter scoop on this year’s minihoppers. but noOOooo. borneo has to go and make it all perntless. sigh.
And all the Feds were worried about inflation…pbbbbbbllllt.
I shall name him Speck.
(doing penny comparison) Oooooh, so eensy-beensy!
Rule of cuteness 14 (suprised no one said that)
Instead of a period, I shall end this sentence with a frog.
PS This is obviously ‘shopped. Look, the pixels . . .
Oh now what did I do? Say “shopped”?
yes.
Re: moderation, I did! It’s just like that scene in The Life of Brian!
From now on, people, do not hesitate to bend down & pick up that lucky penny you’ve spotted on the ground! If someone looks down on you for doing so, you can explain pennies sometimes come with a lucky little frog!
Eeeeeee! Teeeeeny tineeee toadlet – a penny for your thoughts!
260Oakley is on a roll this morning! Enjoying punularity!
I actually gasped out loud when I realized what I was looking at! He’s SO tiny! And he looks a little tiny bit skeered. Can you imagine being that size and enormous critters OUR size.. PICK YOU UP!?! yikes. They must be tough little guys!!
I want a Boston Terrier that small!! Yes, I do!
(Not trying to give anyone ANY ideas!)
I think of French Bulldogs often called frog dogs
–Imagine one this teensy weensy sized! 
My heart leapt when I saw this froggy.
Seau, …should moi *happen* teau geev heem a leetle, eh, how deau yeau say, la bouche? Kees? Smooch? Zen, maybe heem turn inteau zay leetle prince, non?
Le petite ribbeet?
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry would be seau proud, oui?
@ Therese: bien sur, Madame!!!
That frog probably has no natural enemies. It’s so small, it would not be worth it to eat; a predator would consume more calories swallowing it than it would get from it.
SO CUTE!!!!!
cute tiny penny frog so cute :]
microhyla nepenthecola, “tiny frog that dwells near pitcher plants” (nepenthe)
the more you know!
i originally thought the “nepenthe” part , which comes from Latin which in turn comes from Greek, and means “grief banishing”, referred to perhaps licking the frog to make you feel better at the more gloomy funerals; alas, not so.
DaGONNE it. My reply # 45 above was supposed to have been
directed to M’sieur le pyrit, et ne pas a Mme. Therese.
Multiple Mea Culpas, thereunto appertainin’, pyrit!!
(D’OH!!! Facepalm)
“tinyblorpensis” Bwahahahahahaha.
that is totally rad!
I would like to buy 200 please.
Dear O NO,
I gotta be me. And you gotta be you.
Que sera, sera,
pyrit, aka madam mussell
(a) That is the largest penny I have ever seen. (b) How could they possibly have noticed this in a tropical forest ? It’s barely larger than a flea.
Deserves an enhance! bubble
Oh good lord DO WANT! Must have tiny froggie…! The cute… it burns.
I didn’t think vertebrates could get that small at full size.
He’s all like,
“yo, Abraham, I’m real happy for you, and i’ma let you finish, but GEORGE WASHINGTON has the comfiest coin of all time! ALL TIME!”
@ Beans:
(Muttley-type *snerk*)
mouy aceing head I feel the need to own one
omg CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its so tiny!
omg, i’m hungry, i wanna eat that NOW !!!!
COME HERE LITTLE FROG !!!
hummmm just put a bit of salt!
hiammmmmmmmm!