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

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.

Come nightfall, the varied, yet distinct, calls of bands of frogs can be heard domina­ting all other sounds. They have got a ...

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

Holly had no idea that an uninvited guest was jumping for joy at the thought of meeting her at her front door. "I walked out the front door, and a frog jumped off the door onto the back of my leg!" ...

Jake Socha, the Samuel Herrick Professor in Mechanical Engineering, leads a research team that studies the cricket frog's unique ability to "skitter," another name for jumping multiple times in ...

Researchers led by Jake Socha discovered that cricket frogs in Virginia and North Carolina use unique 'fast-moving belly flops' to jump multiple times on water, a behavior called 'skittering'.

“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 ...

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man reaches the halfway point of the season with the fifth episode. What is Otto Octavius' grand plan? How will things ...

Some Northeast Wisconsin small businesses worry if they can survive without the app and are fighting to try and save the app ...