When I saw this incredible orange Pumpkin Toadlet, I had to paint it.

https://scholar.social/@animalculum/115701992047120062

These little frogs are just 9 to 13mm! So tiny!

#frog #PumpkinToadlet #watercolor

A #NewSpecies of tiny orange #frog discovered in #Brazil's cloud forests https://phys.org/news/2025-12-species-tiny-orange-frog-brazil.html paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0334746

"These tiny #frogs are striking, with a bright orange body and distinctive green and brown freckles. Between 8.9 and 13.4 mm, they are among the smallest four-legged #animals on Earth... Scientists identified this new species of #PumpkinToadlet by its unique advertisement call... It consists of groups of two short bursts of sound."

Due to a quirk in their inner ear development, pumpkin toadlets cannot hear their own mating calls.

#science #sciencefacts #pumpkintoadlet #innerear #matingcall

A Model Toadlet
https://nautil.us/a-model-toadlet-596075/

"just a few millimeters long, the #PumpkinToadlet is diminutive in size but flamboyant in coloration. This tiny neon creature, which lives on #Brazil’s southeast coast, has become a symbol of #conservation and protection for the #AtlanticForest... scientists have identified individuals of the species that seem to be resistant to the #chytrid fungus—they recover from it all on their own."