The highlight of the day was the much-anticipated frog jumping contest, where young contestants showcased their prized pets. From the tiniest tree frogs to hefty bullfrogs, the talent was ...

Scientists at Brown University decided to investigate the secret of what made the frogs jump - using a 500-frame-per-second X-Ray camera to capture every movement, inside and out, of a frog ...

The Small category (under 2 inches) had Tenly Philbrick and his frog Johnny Jumper winning First Prize for jumping 18 ½ inches ... Jannace’s Back Woods, Pine Tree Frosty, SoJo’s Studio ...

But other frogs were filmed with high-speed cameras as well, revealing stunning video of the amphibians’ ability to jump. Here, the champion jumper, a Cuban tree frog, is seen as muscles stretch ...

Yet they were there because he once wrote a story called “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” which told how Jim Smiley’s frog Dan’l Webster was defeated at Angels Camp when ...

OF COURSE. THEY GOT THE RIDES, THE GAMES, THE SHORE SHOWS AND FUN ACTIVITIES. BUT CALAVERAS FROG JUMPING JUBILEE, IT’S ALL ABOUT WHAT MARK TWAIN WROTE ABOUT MORE THAN 100 YEARS AGO. THE JUMPING ...

One of the species that dramatically increased was the tiny European tree frog. This frog likes to jump from shrubs to trees, Dr Moor explains, and is one of the most mobile species, capable of ...