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A wood frog survives with two thirds of its body frozen
It stops breathing and its heart halts while ice forms around the cells The frog floods its cells with glucose and urea to stop ice forming inside them, so crystals grow only between tissues. Heartbeat and breathing resume as it thaws. It breeds in temporary pools that fill in spring. It sits in Mondo's animals collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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A wood frog survives with two thirds of its body frozen: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- It stops breathing and its heart halts while ice forms around the cells. The figure is taken from Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a animals fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Animals shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
- What else can I read about it?
- The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.