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    Livescience.com (Utah, USA) November 2nd, 2010 09:15 PM: World's Smallest Frog Packs Poison Punch, Research Finds

    The record-holder for the smallest frog in the world apparently makes up for its miniature size by packing a wallop of poison, research reveals.

    With a body that's only 10 millimeters long, the Mount Iberia frog (Eleutherodactylus iberia) from Cuba currently holds the Guinness World Record for smallest frog.

    Investigating these dwarf frogs is painstaking work, said researcher Miguel Vences, an evolutionary biologist at the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany.

    "You have to crawl on your knees and move leaf by leaf," Vences told LiveScience. "And when you discover one of these frogs, they usually jump away immediately so that you have to start all over again."

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