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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Douglas Whitbread & Ryan Fahey

African frog the size of a fingernail found 5,000 miles from home at British school

An African frog the size of a fingernail has been found 5,000 miles from home at a British primary school.

The jumping amphibian, which had hitched a ride from the Ivory Coast on a bunch of bananas, was discovered by teachers at Heswall Primary School in the Wirral on Tuesday morning.

Staff at the school said they had been stunned to find the "tiny green stowaway", which was no bigger than a fingernail, among the box of fruit.

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