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.

Sometimes divers, to their own painful dismay, do belly flops. But did you ever see a frog belly flop? That's just what primitive living frogs do, according to a new study1 by Dr. Richard Essner, from ...

Frogs had generally been assumed to all jump in a similar manner — by rapidly extending their back legs as they launched themselves forward and rotating their limbs forward during flight so that they ...

Sometimes divers, to their own painful dismay, do belly flops. But did you ever see a frog belly flop? That's just what primitive living frogs do, according to a new study looking at the evolution of ...

Playing leapfrog would be tricky for the most primitive living frogs: those from the Leiopelmatidae family crash-land rather than touch down gracefully after leaping. The finding may reveal how ...

Here's some new insight into the art of jumping and the agony of belly flops. According to a new study, primitive frogs learned how to jump before they learned how to land. Richard Essner, a ...

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Frogs learned to leap long before they learned how to land smoothly, researchers suggest, based on the simple observation that the amphibians have been hopping around for hundreds of millions of years ...