--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: Tiny frogs of the Brachycephalus genus image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt09f821b278c683ba/6988704ba988ca3ec06b534d/time-top-10-2015-species-tiny-brachycephalus-frog.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Nov 20, 2015 # Tiny frogs of the Brachycephalus genus by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Marcio R. Pie These cute South American frogs look just like any other you might find in the Peruvian Andes—except that they’re probably smaller than any frog you’ve seen before. In fact, at 0.3 inches, they’re about the size of a human fingernail. The discovery of Brachycephalus couldn’t come soon enough. Like many other amphibious species around the world, these tiny frogs face a deadly fungus that endangers survival of the species and may disappear just as suddenly as they were discovered. The lead researcher behind the discovery suggested that the species may be able to survive because it can survive away from the water source where the fungus is found. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-everything-of-2015/4122029/tiny-frogs-of-the-brachycephalus-genus/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-everything-of-2015/4122029/tiny-frogs-of-the-brachycephalus-genus/"},"headline":"Tiny frogs of the Brachycephalus genus","datePublished":"2015-11-20T22:30:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:11:14.737Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-everything-of-2015/4122029/tiny-frogs-of-the-brachycephalus-genus/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt09f821b278c683ba/6988704ba988ca3ec06b534d/time-top-10-2015-species-tiny-brachycephalus-frog.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt09f821b278c683ba/6988704ba988ca3ec06b534d/time-top-10-2015-species-tiny-brachycephalus-frog.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-everything-of-2015/4122029/tiny-frogs-of-the-brachycephalus-genus/","name":"Tiny frogs of the Brachycephalus genus"}}]}] ```