The Blanchard’s Cricket Frog, once found in the wetlands of Ontario's Pelee Island, is being reclassified from endangered to locally extinct. Some conservationists warn that recent legislation ...

Henson, a home economics major, invented Kermit by building the original frog puppet out of one of his mother's coats and a ping-pong ball cut in half, UMD said. Henson, who went on to create the ...