Asia’s tiniest frog, a creature the size of a pea, has been discovered in a national park in Malaysia’s Sarawak state on Borneo island, according to researchers.
Herpetologist Indraneil Das said he and Hamburg University colleague Alexander Haas discovered the orange-and-red frog when returning from a field trip at the Kubah National Park in 2004.
They finally announced their discovery after taxonomic journal Zootaxa published their findings.
“We heard the calls of this frog and we knew the calls of all frogs in the area and this was different,” Dr Das said.