A bullfrog leaps in a graceful arc at the Calaveras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee. When Mark Twain authored "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" in 1865, he probably didn't expect ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. On the afternoon of August 18, 2023, sixteen intrepid frogs and their ...

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 ...

Frog wranglers gather at the capitol to pit government employee and state law makers against each other in frog racing. Frog jump starts may 15-18th pic.twitter.com ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. STRONG — Konor Dyer, 14, of Strong searched for the perfect frog to enter in ...

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 ...

WOODLAND — Competing in the 52nd annual Frog Jump at Woodland Planters Days is serious business. It takes some preparation: What’s the wind speed? How’s the terrain? But mostly, it comes down to the ...

Jul. 22—MASSENA — Ryder Peets came to Thursday's Boss Frog Jumping Competition at the Massena Arena with three frogs in tow. He hoped one of them would hop to the finish line in a record time to allow ...

It’s no bull. The celebrated jumping frogs of Calaveras County can compete this May and live to leap another day. In a policy flip-flop, state Fish and Game wardens have found a way around a state law ...

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD – My earliest memory, at age 3 or 4, of the annual Governor’s Frog Jump and Egg Strike in Springfield was being ecstatic to the point of jumping up and down myself at my late Grandma ...

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 ...