The next time you declare that you are “freezing to death,” spare a thought for the wood frog who gets so cold in winter that ...

Wood frogs experience very little of the winter because they are frozen solid for the coldest eight months of the year. This is a high-risk strategy! If ice crystals form inside their body ...

To do this, they conducted a lab experiment where frogs were left unfrozen, frozen directly, or frozen through a freeze-thaw cycle. In the wild, all frogs survived throughout the long winter where ...

Masters of Winter Sleep Wood frogs are some of the hardiest creatures on the planet, capable of surviving temperatures that dip below freezing. Native to North America, these little amphibians undergo ...

As much as 70 per cent of the frog's body is frozen solid. These hardy wood frogs can survive all winter in this suspended animation, undergoing several cycles of freezing and thawing as the ...

It inhales no breath, has no heartbeat, yet it is not dead. Rock hard and icy to the touch, this speckled North American wood frog is frozen alive at –2?°C, and has been so for the last 24 hours. Then ...

The African bullfrog lives in the savanna of Africa, where it gets very hot and dry. When a frog is out of the water, mucus on its skin helps it breathe by dissolving oxygen from the air.