Amazing ways animals can control their bodies
1. Wood frogs can survive being frozen solid, over and over
Every autumn, animals head south, fleeing the encroaching winter lest they freeze to death or get eaten. But then there's the wood frog, which simply lies down and freezes solid. When it thaws, months later, it just hops away and gets right back to business. “Once winter reaches a wood frog its skin freezes. The frog becomes hard and crunchy and when you drop it, it goes 'clink,'" said Kenneth Storey, a professor of biochemistry at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
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