On a winter walk through Alaska’s forests, you might step over what looks like a dead frog, locked stiff beneath the leaves. Its eyes are glazed with ice, its heart doesn’t beat, and its lungs do ...

The animal kingdom is full of fascinating tricks for enduring sub-freezing temperatures. Birds, for example, often just take flight for warmer parts unknown the moment a frost hits their environment.

With just a flick of her finger, Warkentin has demonstrated a phenomenon that is transforming biology. After decades of thinking of genes as a “blueprint”—the coded DNA strands dictate to our cells ...

Most amphibians die when exposed to salt — except the crab-eating frog, which thrives with it. Here’s how it rewrote the ...