James Hanken Part of Team of Scientists That Discovered Three New Species of Tiny Salamanders

James Hanken is part of a team of scientists that have discovered three new speices of minute salamanders in the Sierra Madre del Sur of Oaxaca, Mexico. Until this discovery, only a single species had been reported from the region. The three new salamanders, in the genus Thorius, are the tiniest tailed tetrapods known to science. Featured in: Gizmodo, Futurity   (image courtesy of Sebastian Voitel)