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This frog has been winning at hide and seek for a million years????and for good reason… the newly-found starry dwarf frog is thumbnail-sized????The little guy was just discovered in India’s Western Ghats????Astrobatrachus kurichiyana is also the sole member of an ancient lineage????meaning it has no close sister species for maybe tens of millions of years????The oddball is dark brown with pale blue dots, giving the frog camouflage????but scientists still need to know more, like its life cycle, sounds or whether it’s endangered????The Indian Institute of Science-led research was published in the journal PeerJ