“To jump on the water surface, you have to have your legs retracted and ready to push down again by the time you’re ...

Following a 7,000-mile-long rescue mission for conservation, 33 tiny Southern Darwin’s frogs ( Rhinoderma darwinii) were born ...

Cricket frogs are pretty small and would fit on the thumb of an adult human's hand, yet they possess extraordinarily fast motion. To record how they were traveling over the water, the team set up ...

Cricket frogs, native to Virginia and North Carolina, demonstrate an incredible ability to skitter across water surfaces, ...

If you are light enough, the water’s surface is just another place to stretch your legs. The animal kingdom abounds with ...

Cricket frogs were once thought to hop on the water’s surface. They actually leap in and out of the water in a form of locomotion called porpoising.

The low winter flows cause drying of off-channel wetlands, forcing the highly aquatic frog into the main channel where it is exposed to predation from brown trout and many other animals. “The ...

An endangered species of frog named after Charles Darwin has been saved from extinction - thanks to the London Zoo. A deadly ...

Frogs are pretty impressive little creatures – but they don’t always tend to have accuracy and physics on their side when it comes to locomotion. By looking at the cricket frog, researchers ...