Mini scule is a species of microhylid frog endemic to Madagascar that
was described in 2019. The scientific name of the species refers to its
size, being a pun on the word minuscule. It is very small, measuring
only 8.4 to 10.8 mm (0.33 to 0.43 in) in snout–vent length. It has
bronze underparts with a brown groin and back of the thigh, cream
upperparts with brown flecking, a dark brown side of the head, and a red
iris. On the hind feet, the first toe is absent and the second and fifth
toes are strongly reduced. The frog is known only from the Sainte Luce
Reserve, where it inhabits areas with deep leaf litter near semi-
permanent water bodies. Specimens of frogs from Mandena, the Vohimena
mountains, the southern Anosy Mountains, and Tsitongambarika may also be
of this species. Along with Mini mum and Mini ature, the other two
species in its genus, it received media attention when first described
due to the wordplay in its scientific name.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_scule>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1942:
World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy achieved a pyrrhic
victory against the United States at the Battle of the Santa Cruz
Islands.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Santa_Cruz_Islands>
1992:
U.S. Navy Petty Officer Allen R. Schindler Jr. was killed in
Sasebo, Japan, for being gay, which led to the U.S. Armed Forces' "don't
ask, don't tell" policy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Allen_R._Schindler_Jr.>
1999:
Armed men led by Nairi Hunanyan carried out a mass shooting at
the Armenian parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan,
National Assembly speaker Karen Demirchyan, and six others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vazgen_Sargsyan>
2011:
Michael D. Higgins was elected President of Ireland with far
more votes than any politician in the country's history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Irish_presidential_election>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
archival:
1. Of or pertaining to an archive or archiving.
2. Of a material: having a quality suited to the conservational needs of
archiving.
3. (uncountable) The practice of storing items in an archive; archiving;
(countable) an instance of this.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/archival>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the
doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor
and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to
the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink
from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these
wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
--Theodore Roosevelt
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt>
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