PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island -- Rumors of the great jumping frogs of Calaveras County have not been greatly exaggerated. The longest jump reported in scientific papers for an American bullfrog is almost 4 ...

ANGELS CAMP, Calif. — For the 75th straight spring, the golden foothills of the Mother Lode are awhirl with Calaveras County’s celebrated jumping frog jubilee, an annual rite of Americana inspired by ...

Frogs really should have fantastically strong leg muscles to jump as far as they do. And yet their leg muscles are only a fraction as powerful as they would need to be…so where does this leaping power ...

Tuesday was Kids Day at the Calhoun County Fair, which meant it was time for the annual frog-jumping contest. While the frogs were released back into the wild, cows, horses, lambs and pigs -- and ...

INDEED FINALLY A COLLEGE GRADUATE. THERE YOU GO, CALAVERAS COUNTY FAIR STARTS THIS WEEK, AND AHEAD OF. THAT, WE ARE CELEBRATING NATIONAL FROG JUMPING DAY. SO IN 1865, AUTHOR MARK TWAIN PUBLISHED HIS ...

If you're viewing this on the ABC10 App, tap here for multimedia. "He's good enough for one thing, I should judge -- he can out-jump any frog in Calaveras County." - Mark Twain, 1865 - The Celebrated ...

Frogs are often thought of as natural leapers, but new findings show primitive living frogs actually do belly flops. This suggests frogs evolved jumping before they refined landing, researchers said.