The wood frog survives extreme winter temperatures by freezing solid, with its heart stopping for nearly eight months. It ...
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 ...
These wood frogs are one of the only creatures that can be described as “the living dead”. Yet every spring they come back to life again. Unable to travel large distances to escape Canada's ...
These frogs are the wood frog, pictured above; the spring peeper; the gray tree frog; and the similar Copes gray tree frog.
A small brown frog squats motionless in a den of green moss. 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 ...
While humans have 25 TAS2Rs, mostly in the tongue but also in the gastrointestinal tract and even brain, a species like the wood frog has 248, nearly 10 times more, with some located in the liver ...
According to a study led by Don Larson of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, wood frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus) freeze up to 60 percent of their bodies during the long and extremely cold Alaskan ...
The series of videos, filmed over the last seven months by Capouellez, focuses on wild populations of American toads, wood frogs, gray tree frogs and pickerel frogs and will be posted during the week.