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A RealScience short documentary on how arctic frogs survive being frozen alive, featuring Dr. Ken Storey.
Graduate students Hanane Hadj-Moussa and Sam Logan were recently featured on CTV News to discuss their science crowd-funding project on Experiment. Their project on the Red Devil squid's ability to survive oxygen deprivation, near-freezing temperatures, and high pressure can be found at www.experiment.com/toughsquid.
Carleton's Science Café - Ken Storey on the biochemistry of winter. We all know that mammals are warm-blooded and that for humans a drop in core body temperature of only a few degrees can be lethal. However, such strict adherence to a high constant body temperature is not a feature of all mammals. Hibernators readily abandon this concept and let their bodies chill to near zero degrees Celsius while entering a deep torpor.
On TLC's series "Understanding" – Wood frogs are able to completely freeze during the winter, with no heart rate, brain activity, or breathing. When spring comes the frogs awake from their suspended animation, jump-start their heart, and regain all life functions.
Miruna's school poster of Ken Storey
Ken Storey in Ontario High School Textbooks
The Mystery of the Frozen Frogs– Biology Grade 11, McGraw,Hill, Ryerson Publishers,Toronto, 2001, p.36
Research in Canada: Freezing Cells – Grade 12 Ontario Biology Textbook Citation: Di Giuseppe, M., Vavitsas, A., Ritter, B., Fraser D., Arora, A., and Lisser, B. 2003. Biology 12, Nelson Thomson, Toronto, pp. 340-341.