Get out your smallest violin—or maybe your biggest—for the petite frogs whose miniature ear structures hinder their ability to hop, one of the defining characteristics of frogs. The frogs are of the ...

When Mark Twain authored "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" in 1865, he probably didn't expect the short story would be the spark that would result in scientists realizing that their ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — One day, amid his decades-long study of how animals move, including how frogs jump, Brown University biologist Thomas Roberts found himself and colleague Richard ...

The leap of a frog is a quintessential evolutionary feat. The critter’s girthy gams thrust from behind to springboard the body up and out; a pair of acrobatic arms stretch forward to seamlessly break ...

INDEED FINALLY A COLLEGE GRADUATE. THERE YOU GO, CALAVERAS COUNTY FAIR STARTS THIS WEEK, AND AHEAD OF. THAT, WE ARE CELEBRATING NATIONAL FROG JUMPING DAY. SO IN 1865, AUTHOR MARK TWAIN PUBLISHED HIS ...

ALAMEDA, Calif. - With five generations of frog jumping enthusiasts, one Bay Area family is gearing up to compete in this weekend's Calaveras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee. It's a contest for ...

Kate Carlson pounded on the ground on both sides of her bullfrog, Toothless, in an effort to urge it jump Saturday at the Post-Tribune’s annual frog jump contest at the 169th Lake County Fair in Crown ...