NewsAnimalsCricket frogs belly flop their way across waterTheir movement is a form of "porpoising," leaping in and out of the water to travel Cricket frogs (shown) leap in and out of the water to travel across it rather than hopping on its surface, according to a new study.Jake SochaBy McKenzie Prillaman6 seconds agoCricket frogs cant walk (or hop) on water like once thought.Their bodies sink below the surface between successive jumps, researchers report in the November Journal of Experimental Biology. This mode of locomotion is a form of porpoising, when an animal leaps in and out of the water as it travels.Eleven species of frogs have been noted to hop atop the waters surface. But the movement hadnt been studied in detail.So biomechanist Talia Weiss and colleagues collected cricket frogs (Acris crepitans) from a swamp in North Carolina. Native to the eastern half of the United States and northeastern Mexico, these critters are so tiny that one can fit on a penny, says Weiss, formerly of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.