Winning frogs need fresh legs, he said. Usually they get caught only a day or two before the contest and afterward are carefully put back into their original pond, reservoir or slough ...

These days, competitors include a half-dozen hard-core frog-jumping squads, which roar into town with truckloads of specially selected frogs. John Hand and his Oregon Frog Team arrived with a semi ...

The night before Jefferson Mint Festival and Frog Jump, Addie Howell spent a portion of her night plunging her arms into dark water and scooping up dozens of frogs from a rural pond.

Be a frog and jump into Basho's pond. By Michael Hoffman. SHARE/SAVE . X Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky Threads Email Print Bookmark story Copy link. Oct 19, 2019.

In a pond near you, thousands of small suitors are tuning up their voices for the annual swamp love-in. Though they grow to just 2 inches, their voluble voices make up a well-known spring chorus ...

The secret to frogs' superlative jumping lies in their tendons. Researchers, filming frogs jumping at 500 frames per second with special X-ray technology, show that the frog's tendon stretches as ...

One way is to create a frog pond in your backyard, whether it's with an unused kiddie pool, PVC pipes hammered into the ground or an in-ground water feature. Here are some suggestions from Benard ...

Hunter Baird, 7, of Lowell, tries to coax his frog into jumping during the annual frog jump at the Lake County Fair in Crown Point on Saturday, ... “We found him in our friend’s pond. ...

"I didn't know frogs were provided," Danielle Koker said. Sydney, who loves to catch frogs, toted her amphibian around the fairgrounds in a netted butterfly cage, dipping it into the pond at the NRA.