There are some species that can freeze solid for months at a time and then thaw out. Wood frogs pump glycagen from their livers into their blood stream, which acts as an anti freeze. Lizards in deserts pick up hant their feet en to survive the heat of the day. The very water we love that keeps us alive does a heel turn when it turns cold.
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Bundle up for a smol, classroom-friendly episode with Princeton University evolutionary biologist and Thermophysiologist Dr. Shane Campbell-Staton. You’ll learn about everything from heat tolerance to frostbite, anti-freeze woodfrogs to icy alligators, why some people run hot, why your toes run cold, how a fever is like a honeybee, how geography influences our body composition, why mammoths are big, and why you should grab your hat before running out the door. Also: what counts as “balmy” in Alaska.
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