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 can’t walk (or hop) on water like once thought. Their bodies sink below the surface between successive jumps, researchers report in the November Journal of Experimental Biology.

“Skittering is not actually a well-defined word for this behavior – one naturalist used it to describe a ‘jumping on water’ behavior in frogs in 1949, and since then, it’s been used for ...

Conservationists and government officials in Chile have collected the few remaining Loa water frogs (Telmatobius dankoi) from a dwindling stream near the city of Calama, the Global Wildlife ...