On a winter walk through Alaska’s forests, you might step over what looks like a dead frog, locked stiff beneath the leaves.
More cryoprotectants are produced in populations in colder locations. This adaptation means that the wood frog can survive at ...
The wood frog, a small forest-floor amphibian found across much of North America, survives winter using a strategy that sounds more like science fiction than biology. It allows large portions of its ...