Just chilling out: The wood frog has been known to freeze most of its body to last out the winter. Its heart stops beating, its blood stops flowing, and it is - at an organismal level - dead. Yet it thaws out in the spring and merrily hops away.
In Alaska, wood frogs freeze for seven months, thaw and hop away.
Each September, the wood frogs of Alaska do a very strange thing: they freeze.
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