These helpful substances mix and act as natural antifreeze, enabling them to stay dormant for up to eight months. Now, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. It looks dead for months, its body packed with ice. But ...

Some social media users are sharing an image they claim shows a frozen wood frog. The subject of the image is a green creaturecovered in frost crystals. "In Alaska, wood frogs freeze for seven months ...

Some animals in Canada will chill off so much in winter that they actually freeze, ensuring their survival through the harsh months. Such is the case with the wood frog. To ensure it can make it ...

With a body the color of dead leaves and a black “mask” extending behind the eyes, the wood frog is unmistakable if you can actually find one. Credit: PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON During a recent lecture ...

If you’re out on a walk in early spring and you happen to hear clucking, don’t start looking around for barnyard birds. The wood frog is one of the first frog species to emerge in late winter in the ...

Alaskan wood frogs survive freezing temperatures by entering states of suspended animation. They do this by undergoing a controlled body freeze, spreading glucose through their bodies, and shutting ...

How does a thin-skinned, cold-blooded creature survive a below freezing Colorado winter without a fur coat or a ticket south?

Things didn’t look good for the five frozen wood frogs. The palm-sized amphibians were hibernating in a box outside Brian Barnes’ Fairbanks home a few decades ago. Barnes, director of the Institute of ...

You can hear the choruses of male wood frogs in vernal pools during the early spring. It’s not the birds or the bees in this story. It’s actually frogs. Wood frogs, it turns out, start their mating ...

Road salt can often wash into nearby wetlands and ponds and hurt freshwater wildlife, but some animals appear to be adapting. By Ethan Freedman Published Apr 2, 2024 9:00 AM EDT Get the Popular ...

December 2023 was certainly an unusual month in the Northland. Not only did we have a small amount of snow — only about 5 inches (normal is about 18) — this follows a record-setting snowy December ...