Wood frogs
Feb 22 2007, Naveen

A new study carried on wood frogs revealed that they are continuously undergoing freeze-thaw cycles. Kenneth Storey, a professor of biochemistry at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada took the frogs through a series of freeze-thaw cycles and found no...

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