The animal kingdom is full of fascinating tricks for enduring sub-freezing temperatures. Birds, for example, often just take ...
On a winter walk through Alaska’s forests, you might step over what looks like a dead frog, locked stiff beneath the leaves.
Frogs that freeze themselves solid in the winter and thaw in the spring inspired methods to extend the storage time for ...
Scientists have discovered that frogs have the ability to regrow limbs. It was already known that other animals, like salamanders, starfish, crabs and lizards could do the same. Researchers at Harvard ...
Long before winter seals the forest under ice, certain frogs begin preparing for a transformation that defies basic biology.
A Dec. 12 Metro article about animals that freeze solid incorrectly said that spring peepers and gray tree frogs lose their ability to freeze as they age. The animals keep that ability into adulthood.