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It defies logic, but frogs can freeze solid during winter, then thaw out and live again, and scientists now know how
Long before winter seals the forest under ice, certain frogs begin preparing for a transformation that defies basic biology. The wood frog (Rana sylvatica), along with a few treefrog species like the ...
These frogs inside an incubator at Mt. St. Joseph University are in a kind of frozen state. Cryoprotectants are key and researchers are trying to translate the concept into human organs. Under a leafy ...
WASHINGTON — This is the way a wood frog freezes: First, as the temperature drops below 32 degrees, ice crystals start to form just beneath the frog’s skin. The normally pliant and slimy amphibian ...
On a winter walk through Alaska’s forests, you might step over what looks like a dead frog, locked stiff beneath the leaves. Its eyes are glazed with ice, its heart doesn’t beat, and its lungs do ...
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