Each winter in parts of North America, certain frogs endure conditions that would be fatal to most vertebrates. As temperatures drop below freezing, ice forms inside their bodies, their hearts stop ...

Every spring in Interior Alaska, a small amphibian does something that would kill virtually any other vertebrate: it thaws out after spending months frozen nearly solid, restarts its heart, and hops ...

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