Why Frogs Can Survive Freezing Temperatures | Nature’s Living Ice Trick

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]How can some frogs survive being frozen solid in winter? In temperatures that would kill most animals, certain frogs can stop moving, stop breathing, and appear completely lifeless.

[00:00:11]As winter arrives, their bodies begin an extraordinary survival process. Ice starts forming on the skin and in spaces between tissues as body temperature drops. But before freezing becomes deadly, the frog floods its body with natural glucose, a protective chemical that works like biological antifreeze.

[00:00:30]This protects cells, organs, and vital tissues from being destroyed while ice forms outside the cells instead of inside them. When spring returns and the ice melts, the frog slowly wakes up, starts breathing again, and hops away as if winter never happened.