A badger appearing to admire a Banksy-style graffiti version of itself has won the Natural History Museum's 2024 Wildlife ...
Surviving in cold environments is no small feat. Just as humans bundle up in layers of clothing to brave plunging temperatures, some animals have developed extraordinary adaptations to endure extreme ...
There is even a species of these resourceful insects known as the alpine bumble bee (Bombus polaris), which lives above the Arctic Circle ... including some butterflies and even the wood frog, an ...
Wood frogs are the most northern-dwelling amphibians in North America. Populations even exist in the Arctic Circle. These fascinating animals drift into a state of hibernation every winter. However, ...
Nestled in the heart of Marion, Arkansas, there’s a little slice of seafood heaven that’s about to make your taste buds dance ...
The wood frog survives extreme winter temperatures by freezing solid, with its heart stopping for nearly eight months. It uses its natural antifreeze, a mix of glucose and urine constituents ...
The next time you declare that you are “freezing to death,” spare a thought for the wood frog who gets so cold in winter that its heart stops beating – but it does not die. Once the spring ...
The wood frog survives extreme winter temperatures by freezing solid, with its heart stopping for nearly eight months. It ...
While humans have 25 TAS2Rs, mostly in the tongue but also in the gastrointestinal tract and even brain, a species like the wood frog has 248, nearly 10 times more, with some located in the liver ...
These frogs are the wood frog, pictured above; the spring peeper; the gray tree frog; and the similar Copes gray tree frog.