How does a thin-skinned, cold-blooded creature survive a below freezing Colorado winter without a fur coat or a ticket south?
Most amphibians die when exposed to salt — except the crab-eating frog, which thrives with it. Here’s how it rewrote the ...
The animal kingdom is full of fascinating tricks for enduring sub-freezing temperatures. Birds, for example, often just take ...
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How Amphibians Breathe Through Their Skin to Survive
Animals are incredibly adaptable creatures that have developed a variety of survival mechanisms throughout their evolution. Many amphibians, like frogs, axolotls, and caecilians, can breathe through ...
Wood frogs — Lithobates sylvaticus, also known as Rana sylvatica — live farther north than any other amphibian, even beyond the Arctic Circle. Unlike most frogs, they don’t overwinter underwater. They ...
Some tadpoles break the rules of biology. Instead of developing lungs as they grow, they lose them entirely and still manage to survive. A recent study from Cornell University found that these ...
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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.
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