Cricket frogs are one of the smallest frogs in North America, easily sitting on the thumb of an average adult's hand. To observe the cricket frog in motion, team members used high-speed videography.

Cricket frogs were once thought to hop on the water’s surface. ... This mode of locomotion is a form of “porpoising,” when an animal leaps in and out of the water as it travels.

Slow-motion view of the cricket frog belly flop. Jake Socha Rather than skittering across water like basilisk lizards do, the frogs were rapidly “porpoising”—leaping from the water as they swam.

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 ...

It’s pretty rare, but just like us mammals, some flies actually give live birth. One of them is a parasitic fly species Ormia ...

Passing scientists noticed the friendly sounding animal — and discovered a new species. ... Mahabaleshwar cricket frogs are considered “large,” reaching about 2.5 inches in length, ...

Cricket frogs are one of the smallest frogs in North America, easily sitting on the thumb of an average adult’s hand. To observe the cricket frog in motion, team members used high-speed videography.

They caught a few of these “large” frogs and, after taking a closer look, realized they’d discovered a new species: Minervarya ghatiborealis, or the Mahabaleshwar cricket frog. A Minervarya ...