It looks dead for months, its body packed with ice. But when spring arrives, this unassuming frog thaws back to life.

It takes about a day to thaw out, then it's back to normal for the frog and it makes its way to its natal vernal pool. If you listen for the peepers this season, you'll know when the wood frogs are on ...

Some social media users are sharing an image they claim shows a frozen wood frog. The subject of the image is a green creaturecovered in frost crystals. "In Alaska, wood frogs freeze for seven months ...

Researchers are studying frogs native to New York that freeze solid during the winter months, only to thaw and return to life in the spring. Native to the Finger Lakes region, wood frogs survive ...

With an eye patch like a bandit and bodies no bigger than 3 inches, wood frogs are among the fascinating critters that spend the winter sheltered in backyard and woodland leaf litter. If you find one ...

Discover how North America’s amphibians and reptiles survive winter’s chill. From freeze-tolerant wood frogs to ...

Things didn’t look good for the five frozen wood frogs. The palm-sized amphibians were hibernating in a box outside Brian Barnes’ Fairbanks home a few decades ago. Barnes, director of the Institute of ...

(From left to right) Host Ira Flatow, Richard Lee, and Clara do Amaral at SciFri’s live event in Oxford, Ohio. Credit: Scott Kissell/Miami University When winter comes, animals have several options ...

According to a study led by Don Larson of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, wood frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus) freeze up to 60 percent of their bodies during the long and extremely cold Alaskan ...

A fancy camera offers new insight into the distinct calls of a springtime male wood frog chorus. By Sabrina Imbler In the winter, the woods of New Hampshire are littered with small, frozen frogs.

These frogs inside an incubator at Mt. St. Joseph University are in a kind of frozen state. Cryoprotectants are key and researchers are trying to translate the concept into human organs. Under a leafy ...

Their bodies cooling with the October air, wood frogs are now snug in leafy blankets all over Alaska. Down there inside those thumb-size frogs, even smaller creatures are hitching a ride. These tiny ...