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Compare to these toads that jump, but comically badly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-ngnnhcT-s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-ngnnhcT-s

• piceas 4y ago
  The video links to a good article about the paper. I like that they used micro ct scans and returned the samples to where they were collected. https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/miniature-frogs-set-record-as-first-vertebrates-to-lose-the-ability-to-balance/ https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/miniature-frogs-se... "Semicircular canal size constrains vestibular function in miniaturized frogs" https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn1104 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn1104