Thousands of frog fanatics descended on the small community of Valley City's Mill Stream Park Sunday to watch frogs do what they do best, with lots of encouragement from their handlers of course. When ...

At the Calaveras County Jumping Frog Jubilee in California — made famous in Mark Twain’s short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” — three researchers discovered potential flaws in ...

VALLEY CITY, Ohio -- A scant threat of rain literally overshadowing Mill Stream Park for the annual Valley City Frog Jump July 20 did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of the participants and visitors.

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 ...

Official frog wrangler Dave Chaney said festival volunteers traditionally visit area ponds the night before the frog jump to collect bullfrogs for entrants who do not bring their own amphibian athlete ...

Frog jumps are a dynamic bodyweight movement that builds leg power, coordination, and cardiovascular endurance, making them ...

We may be alike in that you, too, believed frog jumping contests had gone the way of Mark Twain, steamboats and rotary dial telephones. Like me, you would be wrong. We have been with the rural wing of ...

A crowd in suits and dresses stood around a roped off circle in the midday heat on the Capitol lawn on Tuesday. Inside the circle were several containers of frogs. Every year in Sacramento, ...