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.

The Blanchard’s Cricket Frog, once found in the wetlands of Ontario's Pelee Island, is being reclassified from endangered to ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...