So Apparently "Toads Found In Rocks" Is A Thing | Answers With Joe

[@lucaswalker4914]

This really makes me wonder how many prehistoric nightmares are just waiting for a good rain...

[@FlyR7]

True

[@Yora21]

The scary ones are frozen bacteria in thawing permafrost peat bogs.

[@HaydenX]

My hopes would be for either Meganeura or Arthropleura...excessively unlikely as their oxygen requirements were likely far beyond what can be delivered now, but still...terrestrial and even flying arthropods that are gigantic are just really cool to me. I'm also obsessed with odonata (dragonfly family) and meganeura was a close (ish) relative.

[@beautyonabarnbudget]

It happened at burning 🔥 man. All those prehistoric buggy/fishy things came to life after the rains and freaked a bunch of dirty people probably on hallucinogens out 😜???

[@patrickday4206]

Waiting for the permafrost to melt 😮

[@MrWoofie62]

Back in the very early 70s my granddad and dad were asked by my grandma to dismantle an old dilapidated wooden shed that was in our back garden. The base of the shed was a concrete slab about 4 or 5 inches thick. This shed was built by my dad and granddad before the 2nd world war and was a complete wreck. I remember always being told not to play near it because of the state it was in with the corrugated metal roof with being caved in with sharp rusty edges. While gramps and dad pulled it down, I watched in the sidelines eagerly wanting to join in but was told no, but I could help smash the concrete base up with my dad after the wood and roof had been cleared. Anyway, once that was done granddad went indoors leaving dad to crack the slab to pieces with a big sledgehammer and I was to help load the pieces into the wheelbarrow. As we eventually got to breaking up near the centre of the base, I was "helping" dad move a quite sizeable slab, when as we picked it up on its edge my dad said, "Steve, look at that!" ...I looked down and there was the biggest Toad I'd ever seen, But the strange thing was, It was completely white, as white as chalk! Within minutes of it being in daylight, it started to slowly move about and tried to hop away but dad grabbed hold of it & we quickly put it in a wooden box with some grass cuttings and other foliage. We then sat on the kitchen doorstep and watched it. Dad said he had most probably been there for years trapped in his little burrow and fed on any stray worms and bugs that ventured to close to his little cave ...Then something else weirdly happened. As we sat watching it, in the space of a few minutes it started to change colour and quickly darken to a dark green-brown colour and bounce about franticly. After showing gramps, dad said we should set him loose so we took him to the pond in the middle field and released him next to an old rotting fallen tree trunk. Over the years I've recounted this memory many times to various friends but I'm sure they didn't believe me. Sadly my grandparents and dad died many many years ago and I myself have now reached my 62nd year, so I'm glad found this video clip! Anyway, thanks for the upload. 🤯😵🤪🤠

[@bigboss3314]

That must have been very neat!

[@andrewj3177]

Ah wonderful Anyway Congratulation for being 62 coz i doubt ill reach that far considering my lifestyle

[@Moths000]

I remember when I was around 4 I would go into my dads shed to look at the frogs. I remember picking them up and just putting them outside. They were all white and they were gone when I woke up. I miss doing that tbh.

[@clivewells7090]

Thanx for your story, I know people have gone into a hibernative state in cold water like that boy in this vid but it's something we have in common with whales called the mammalian diving response. Learn something new everyday and you got something to forget tomorrow! X

[@chucklebutt4470]

Whoa, that's cool! Am I the only one who skipped to the end of the story to make sure it wasn't a troll post? Lol. Some paragraphs would make it easier to read. Imma steal it.

[@maximummarklee]

I can imagine the hilarious scene that develops when an alien race tries to figure out just how the team of tardigrade passengers on that Starshot space probe figured out how to build and launch it into space.

[@MrGoatflakes]

heh

[@emk7132]

I love this comment!

[@jeffreyoneill6439]

That is very funny. Well done.

[@Burden_one]

@murb ash omfg without knowing what a finger or skin is, that would be absolutely baffling. They'd probably think it's some form of language or cultural art.

[@VanillaHorror]

Hahahahaha

[@uzetaab]

Apparently Emergency Room staff say that you're not dead until you are warm and dead. There are numerous stories of people being revived from death in cold conditions.

[@Aztesticals]

Completely true. The cold temp slows the metabolism down until the point that oxygen basicly is used at an ultra slow rate. Allowing the brain to not be damaged until hours have passed. This may have been done intentionally to many a monkey in the past for science. I mean it was but even as a guy in biotech it's kinda messed up. They also used to totally freeze hamsters for minutes up to hours and then thaw them in microwaves back in the 40s and 50s whish is where the ides of cryogenics came from. Turns out that it really only works on small things where the whole body can cool fast and ice crystals don't have a choice to pierce the cell walls and blood vessles. In theory it may be possible to do to humans if a very slow and painful replacement of blood with an artificial oxygen carrying antifreeze is used. Which is being researched but even though no humans have been tested yet. Just knowing some of the stuff in it. It would burn like he'll and well. It ain't as good as irl hemoglobin yet. But we're getting there. Gradually as humans do, the never ending March forward in technology. Recently we actuay started humanizing some genes from these tree frogs. Basicly you take the genes in the frog and slowly tweak them until they can work to produce a nearly identical product in a human. If that can be mastered then a person could undergo a series of gene therapies over a few months until all of their cells contain the genes to produce natural antifreeze. Then just ya know. Freeze em like the frogs. I'd say give it 10-15 years before the first human trials that actually work unlike all those poor frozen people currently who will never wake up

[@Kyharra]

If the corpse is warm it's still got some live left in it 😌🤤

[@ThatOpalGuy]

WARM ish

[@James-thefogiscoming]

@@Kyharra letting the intrusive thoughts win

[@Kyharra]

@@James-thefogiscoming nothing wrong with that

[@mainlegends8841]

Everything's fun and games until a dinosaur is found in a boulder.

[@smiley4995]

But then you can play the funnest game of all, playing god.

[@Botto_sama]

Man we lucky you not god

[@pop6491]

Hehehehe

[@xxgoodboy1499]

But...they are...

[@pop6491]

@@xxgoodboy1499lol, smartass

[@Melkiah34]

In the 4th grade, I told my teacher about how I froze a moth for 3 days and thawed it out, and it eventually crawled away. She of course didn't believe me so I asked her if I could bring a moth and a cup of water that next Monday and put it in the freezer we had in class, then Friday after lunch take it out and give it a couple hours to watch it crawl away. Her jaw hit the floor when it did lol.

[@ticketforlife2103]

I did the same thing with a moth and an ant, froze them for a whole week

[@glintknot5474]

I did it with my teacher, except she didn't crawl after I took her out. People are still searching me...

[@dannydetonator]

@@glintknot5474 That's normal, if you're a scouser or scottish.

[@greenisnotacreativecolour]

You can do the same with wasps and put the frozen wasps in someone's pocket for some chaos. And you can tie a thread on the moth's leg while it's frozen, and when it wakes up you ave a pet moth on a leash! What larks, eh Pip?

[@bedhunter]

My friend did the same with a snail.

[@timepear]

When old Rip woke up he started singing,"Hello my baby! Hello my honey! Hello my rag time gal!"

[@LaGuaridadeChaz]

"Hello my baby! Hello my honey! *Finds out he's going to die in less that a year* Hello darkness my old friend..."

[@StayMadNobodycares]

kinda wonder why this comment is higher up in the list than the original comment made a week ago that has more likes than yours.

[@harmonicamanrandy]

Ahahahahaha! yep

[@WhoThisMonkey]

@@StayMadNobodycares Why wonder, KZbin is a terrible platform, we just haven't got a popular enough alternative. Once again, the masses perpetuate their own prison.

[@turtleturtle4197]

I'm glad this is in the comme ts near the top. Classics are amazing.

[@arieldanielle23]

I love the idea of a tardigrade traveling to a distant star, being discovered by some intelligent beings, and it basically just serves as a message from earth saying "check out this cool critter we have"

[@AsherKadmiel]

at that point the tardigrades have mutated to extremes and are now these massive titans who consume worlds and being nearly indestructible send all other life in the galaxy extinct except humans so we never end up discovering the flourishing empires which used to exist :(

[@poot-poot]

@@AsherKadmielI will never forgive the tardigrades for this

[@AsherKadmiel]

@@poot-poot Easier to assimilate then apologize

[@DAlienzombie]

Not intelligent lifeforms...

[@arieldanielle23]

@@DAlienzombie please extrapolate on your definition of intelligence

[@CheapAngler]

"not quite alive, but not quite dead." Schrodinger's Frog.

[@correctandsexyaboutit]

He's a phantom

[@nataliepavia3875]

Genius

[@Acoustic-Rabbit-Hole]

Rip Van Schrodinger

[@Karin_Allen]

I was thinking more along the lines of the old man in Monty Python and the Holy Grail: "I'm not dead yet!" 😆

[@copernicofelinis]

Jumps in quantum leaps.

[@wearewyldstallynz]

There's a saying among medical personnel: "You're not dead until you're warm and dead." Some woman recently survived hours of cardiac arrest in the Alps because of hypothermia. I was put on a "cooling protocol" last year after cardiac arrest (CPR for 40 minutes) to prevent brain damage. I think it worked, although it feels like I woke up in a parallel universe that has a pandemic raging, so...

[@trespire]

@Jason Crowall Plot twist, you're still a sleep, this is all a bad dream. Joke aside, good health to you ans stay safe mate.

[@_IcyCube_]

Welcome to our universe, there's a lot of stupid here.

[@hannesbolmstedt]

Here in Sweden, we have two famous cases. One in 1999 when an adult woman became trapped in water under a layer of ice for 80 minutes. On arrival to the hospital, she had already had a cardiac arrest for over two hours and a core body temperature of 13.7 degrees celcius (56.6 F). This wasn't beaten until 2010 when another swedish girl, this time a seven year old, went missing for hours until she was found in the partly frozen ocean with a core body temperature of 13.0 degrees celcius (55.4 F).

[@stanettiels7367]

Good to see you’ve made a recovery.

[@longdonghamjong2078]

And The point for telling us this was?🧐

[@bimblinghill]

Dunno about toads, but a few years ago I proofread my ex's entymology thesis about insect hibernation. The Woolly Bear caterpillar was my favourite, which lives in the Arctic. It allows itself to become heavily infected with a type of bacteria that has a particular shape that allows it to act as a a very efficient nucleation site for ice crystals. Whereas further south a caterpillar may munch its way to full size in a season, up here there might only be a few weeks above freezing, so it eat what it can, then when the temperature drops it freezes solid. Because of the bacteria, this is all with ice crystals that are too numerous and tiny to rip apart its cells. In the spring it thaws out & stuffs itself again. It can take up to 10 years of this before it finally matures. Patient little fella

[@colmwhateveryoulike3240]

Wow!

[@nikiTricoteuse]

That's so cool. Thanks.

[@KristiStClair64]

I wonder how closely related that woolly bear caterpillar is related to the one that lives around me in the northeast US

[@DAlienzombie]

Water doesn' t necessarily change its form below 0°C. And Insects drink Air...

[@DAlienzombie]

Water doesn' t necessarily change its form completly away from liquid below 0°C. And Insects drink Air.

[@crinkly.love-stick]

My grandfather was knocking down an old stone barn years ago, and found a snapping turtle. The original builders used it as a rock, and it woke up an hour or so after he took it out. Thing was in there almost 50 years

[@BabyMango]

That’s insane!! Wow!

[@hothmobile100]

Really?

[@cathybaldry7822]

Far out

[@ReasonablySkeptic]

The pterodactyl story sounds more like they hit some underground gas while digging and where TRIPPING BALLS!

[@jjcoola998]

I love it also died and IMMEDIATELY turned into dust 😂

[@peterlamont647]

@@jjcoola998 The story goes that it's wings moved once and then fell out of the cavity and shattered into dust. It did not "fly out" as the video maker suggests. Why hasn't someone just done this experiment??? Just stick a toad in some non-capillary medium and see what happens. concrete would be deadly because it absorbs water and oxygen even after it's "cured" initially for many years.

[@JD-qt1qz]

It could’ve been a bat covered in dirt & dust that flew up and away while dropping said dirt & dust.

[@zeallust8542]

@@peterlamont647 fr just stick another toad in another time capsules for a couple years

[@peterlamont647]

@@zeallust8542 Agreed. I'm actually short of both toads and time capsules at the moment or else I would try it out.

[@lhaviland8602]

7:40 My dad is an EMT in an area with harsh winters. One of their maxims is: "You aren't dead until you're warm and dead".

[@uzefulvideos3440]

Yes, human brains can survive much longer without oxygen when they're cold. They even use that in medical procedures nowadays, they put you into a coma and cool your body down so they have more time for the procedure.

[@louf7178]

I've wondered whatever happened to cryonics.

[@uzefulvideos3440]

​@@louf7178 Problem with cryonics is that every cell in the body contains water, and water expands and ruptures the cells when it's being frozen. But you need extremely low temperatures to keep the brain intact over longer periods of time.

[@louf7178]

@@uzefulvideos3440 So why aren't the cells rupturing?

[@uzefulvideos3440]

​@@louf7178 They replace the water in your body with a cryoprotectant. But in the medical application I mentioned they don't cool your body below freezing point.

[@wendygo7962]

I'm taking this as proof there's a dragon sleeping inside the moon which is an egg and not a rock Gonna start a religion based around the moon dragon

[@gabrielsantos2430]

Sign me up! All hail the great dragon that will break the moon in its birth!!!!!

[@michaelbedford8017]

There's probably one already in the USA, with tax exempt ststus.

[@wendygo7962]

@@michaelbedford8017 now we just need legally exempt, government sponsored religious wars

[@simonphelon7221]

Everyone knows that the Void Dragon is imprisoned in the Noctis Labyrinth on Mars.

[@wendygo7962]

@@simonphelon7221 Listen here, bud. The moon dragon will beat the shit out of your mars dragon, don't ever contact me or my church ever again!

[@alisvariety9657]

I found an early reference to this in Dracula, right before chapter 15 starts, Van Helsing uses toads found inside rocks as evidence that there are living things that can sustain themselves indefinitely. Dracula was written in 1897 so this was common knowledge or at least not unheard of back then to the point that people would have understood the reference.

[@HeirOfNothingInParticular]

Cool!

[@massv953]

My grandpa told me about this long time ago "toad in the hole" is what he called it, miners used to find them.

[@joshuanicely8722]

In the southern US 'toad in a hole' is a piece of bread with a hole cut in it and an egg cooked in the hole lol. That's cool about your grandfather though!

[@venusalexa7367]

@@joshuanicely8722 oh, I'm in Australia and it's called an elephant egg I think? Or an elephant eye

[@justinholmes5614]

joshua nicely In the U.K. it’s a large Yorkshire pudding with sausages in the middle.

[@estherv2277]

Here in the Netherlands there is a saying: Ik wil, ik wil een kikker in mijn bil. Witch means: I want, I want a toad in my but. And I think that's beautiful.

[@thatgirlwhousedtohavereall5549]

estherv 😂🤣😂👍

[@TheTruthFairy2]

Yeah i live in Oklahoma, i had a horned frog when i was little thought he died my grandma and i buried him. The next spring we were making a strawberry garden we had to move his box when we opened the box within 20 minutes he jumped out and ran away!!! Freaky as shit it happens!! It really happens. Thanks Joe enjoyed this one alot!!!

[@aaron4820]

Not sure what the mystery is, mobs spawn in dark spaces if there's enough room.

[@LovieLoveOFFICIAL]

Wth are mobs

[@keckingrabbit354]

@@LovieLoveOFFICIAL you should play minecraft, its a really awesome game

[@milanstevic8424]

@@LovieLoveOFFICIAL with all due respect, if you're younger than 50, there is no excuse for not instantly appreciating this reference. minecraft was made 10 years ago, it is still one of the most influential pieces of culture since lego, star wars, and lego star wars. and perhaps justin bieber, but let's just pretend that doesn't count.

[@milanstevic8424]

@Ezequiel Ciamparella not everyone watched star wars, listened to elvis pristley, or knew queen elizabeth existed. not everyone is even literate for that matter. we can't communicate in such terms, that's an anomaly, not a rule to live by.

[@Generalindifference]

@@milanstevic8424 younger than 50 🤣🤣most people haven't played that game dude,my 8 year old nephew is the only person I know who plays it

[@RocRolDis]

I once found a metal box in the wall of this ruined cabin in the forest. Opened it up and a frog jumped out and started singing. Craziest thing I ever saw.

[@tobylangdale95]

Holy moley! Instant snapping turtle ( just add water). During the late 1990's in South Florida at a time of extended drought I happened to notice an apparently mummified Osceola snapper ( very similar to the common snapper, though has tubercules) about 2" long and nearly weightles. Seriously this little bugger was truly "dry as a gd'md bone!" I thought that I might keep it as a display specimen, and then to my amazed disbelief I detected the slightest movement of its toes! No F'n way! I thought, but low and behold I took it inside my home and dropped it into my aquarium whereupon it floated like a cork. After several minutes it began gulping water and within an hour or two was exploring the aquarium fully revived. Over the next few days it seemed to slough off it's entire outer covering revealing a fresh covering of skin and keratin with the most intricate and brilliant white markings and patterns on olive to black background coloring that one might imagine. I truly began to appreciate how these creatures along with others could have survived the K-T extinction event as well as other extinction events. True story, instant snapper. Oh, I re-introduced the little guy into an ideal place for a young snapping turtle after it had fattened up somewhat and displayed a desire to escape from the aquarium.

[@alphagt62]

I was thinking about these holes in the desert out in Death Valley. There is nothing in the hole but dry sand, and the temps can reach 120 degrees in the summer. And about once every 5 to 7 years, it will rain, and low and behold, these holes will collect water, and there will be small fish swimming in them! I mean, like the very next day! People have said that birds are somehow carrying them there, but no way a fish could crap an egg and have full sized fish on the very first day after it rains. Somehow these fish bury themselves in the sand, and wait for up to 10 years for rain. Or forever I suppose? Although, no one has ever dug up the dried fish either?

[@ThatKid22101]

@@alphagt62 "no way a fish could crap an egg and have full sized fish on the very first day" this image was more detailed that I had desired to imagine lol

[@Amy_the_Lizard]

@@alphagt62 I'm pretty sure people have actually dug up dried hibernating fish in Death Valley. I can do a search real quick to double check though Edit - Okay, upon further research, there's Devil's Hole Pupfish, which only live in a small pool called Devil's Hole. The fish you're referring to are most likely their relative the Salt Creek Pupfish Cyprinodon salinus salinus, which are frequently washed out of the creek that they normally live in during heavy rains, which is how the adult fish wind up in there over night. They don't actually mummify themselves to wait for rain. nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=104371&inline

[@trespire]

@Toby Langdale Now that's mind boggling. Turtles aren't microscopic or simple organisms. Seems there is a whole scientific field that need investigation.

[@al1410]

I'm kinda going through a similar situation lol found the little guy dried out on a walking trail. I was most certain he was dead. He must of lost his way after mum laid her eggs.. So I picked him up and set him aside but something told me to pour water over him before I walked off so I did just that and man did he come back to life 😂 he thought he was still in the river

[@zacsayer1818]

There is a British food dish named for the this phenomenon, “Toad in the Hole.” A sausage in batter dish that is oven baked/roasted. Yum!

[@Mscape7]

Disgusting.

[@juniorballs6025]

Essentially sausages in a Yorkshire Pudding. Done right it's nothing short of glorious 👍🇬🇧😎

[@Jimmy-Lettuce]

Yeah it's a dam good dish if done right, but it cant be named after this ??

[@cloudyyt5799]

@@juniorballs6025 damn u guys can actually afford internet? I thought that was a bit above your wages 👀🤭😂

[@juniorballs6025]

@@Jimmy-Lettuce think he was doing a pun, but a tasty one all the same 👍

[@artdonovandesign]

Do you know how disappointed I was when those "Sea Monkees" never looked like the illustration in the comic book ad?

[@textech4056]

Ditto that. I did not know I would need a microscope to see the monkeys :)

[@CrazyBear65]

I ordered the "thousand and one army men" only to find out they were flat plastic.

[@textech4056]

@@CrazyBear65 Did you ever see the "Guaranteed to Kill Roaches".? It was 2 small blocks of wood with a painted roach on one. Instructions: Place roach here and smash it..:)

[@gearandalthefirst7027]

@Desperadox23 I've met roaches that would beg to differ

[@Izumi-sp6fp]

Hell I couldn't even get any of it to work. We picked some up from a touristy place in western Wisconsin by the St Croix river I think in 1972 or so. I was 12. I thought I did everything right but nothing. Honestly, I'm not that traumatized by that experience still.

[@issafacelift]

Well this made my life weird. I had a dream when I was young that some friends and I were in the woods behind my house and found this huge rock that we thought was really cool and wanted to keep it. Of course we were like 5 years old, so in my dream we decided we weren't strong enough to carry it home and started breaking pieces off of it to keep for ourselves and ended up cracking the boulder in half, and I cant make this stuff up, when it broke we saw a pterodactyl fly out and screeched and we ran back to my parents and told them. For some reason we all rode back into the woods on scooters (including my mom and dad), where we found a pile of dust and my dad says "thats what happens when you get scared of them" and thats all I remember. It has stuck with me for a long time lol it was always so weird to me. So that story just really messed me up

[@therealtony2009]

if you open a rock and find a pterodactyl, dont be scared of it

[@OkalaborationO]

I’ve had some dreams that were nothing like that but just like that. This one’s a gem, thanks for sharing it. And that is some crazy ass coincide or who knows what.

[@DeplorableMe1776]

I hope this helps. The dream was from this story precisely. Your unconscious dream mind tapped into what "it" is that perceives our lifes and events that night; it recalled(from the future memory(time is circular and space is irrelevant)) this memory or viewed you experiencing it(watching this video). In the chaos that is the dream mind it twisted and blended that message (the story of the pterodactyl you watched in this video) with your daily activities and memories( riding scooters with friends, being with your mom and dad) into a dream. But to you that night it was just a wacky dream with no context. Sorry if that doesn't make sense. Doesnt really make sense to me either. This dream and memory can be completely irrelevant. Or sometimes people dream the exact way themselves or a loved one dies. Everyone experiences this phenomenon differently it seems.

[@therealtony2009]

@@DeplorableMe1776 this was from like their childhood lol

[@littleloner1159]

​@@therealtony2009 Yeah they're saying time is not linear, and subconsciously we can tap into future memories Obviously all nonsense but a common rhetoric in certain spaces.

[@DelinaDoomcat]

I can partially believe the pterodactyl story. In archeology really old finds are very fragile. Even bones, even fossils. That's why it takes a team for preservation. It is entirely possible that they opened a rock that had formed an air pocket around this dead pterodactyl which when opened (most likely above them) was able to briefly show them the form of a pterodactyl falling at them before the remains disintegrated from the sudden new environment. I think people hear about digging and assume it means they dug down. Which is not the case if you are digging a tunnel. Likely the story got exaggerated by the guys that found it.

[@bazinga479]

Lauren Portelli L IS THAT YOU??

[@void4972]

Lmao

[@srinivastatachar4951]

Great hypothesis! Hadn't thought of such a scenario! ==========================================================

[@alexdrockhound9497]

water moving through the rock would have destroyed it long ago.

[@genekelly8467]

I recall reading that the body of King Charles (only English Monarch to be executed) was removed from his tomb-and found to be almost lifelike in appearance..until it was exposed to air-it rapidly decomposed and became almost skeletal within a few days.

[@ryantwombly720]

Now I’m going to picture frogs crawling from the concrete every time I look at the sidewalk. Thanks!

[@kleines_ren]

ewww nooooo don't do that :D

[@whitefire3569]

I appreciate your optimism 😂

[@5amH45lam]

Sounds like an acid trip I was on, one time. 👀

[@gearandalthefirst7027]

@@kleines_ren they are friends, don't be rude

[@arthas640]

One day the toads shall rise, and humanity will regret their hubris

[@pulaski1]

A friend of mine was adding a new driveway across the pavement (In the UK, so US: sidewalk), which required removing the front garden fence and then casting a concrete driveway. When removed the fence, where the garden was around 12"-18" lower than the pavement, it revealed the foundations of the pavement - a thick layer of sand, capped with an inch or so of cement, that filled the gap, between the main width of the paving -brick pavement, and the fence. .... And in the sand, entirely trapped and unable to move, was a fairly large _live_ toad. It is unclear exactly how long it had been there, but I believe at least five years.

[@maskedmarvyl4774]

The frog woke up and immediately started singing "Hello my darlin', hello my sweetheart, hello, my lifelong pal........"

[@shelleyrn5]

Common ER statement when I was a nurse: "They're not dead until they're warm & dead."

[@timh.6872]

And in this case, warm, _wet_ , and dead.

[@BuckeyeStormsProductions]

I worked EMS in a northern climate. Same thing. Until someone is warm, and dead, treat them as if they're alive.

[@IDoNotLikeHandlesOnYT]

@@nateman10 Do you forget you're alive when you turn the lights off at night?

[@El_Peje]

@@IDoNotLikeHandlesOnYT yea

[@hayrayna1314]

@@nateman10 interesting! Now I'll look at your suggested link. TY

[@theshoelace1706]

Right when you said there was a "superman of the microbiological world", I yelled TARDIGRADES! and immediately knew my neighbors thought i was verbally abusing people in modern warfare.

[@MacSvensson]

lol, same here :)

[@waylontmccann]

Bazinga! I was on my porch... my neighbors probably think my kids failed in school and I'm a judgmental jerk... thanks Joe. 🥺😬🤣 But seriously Joe, great job on the video man. You rock! (Awe full awful punster)

[@dataexpunged6969]

I yelled that too, whilst fist pumping the air 😂 Absolutely love those little fuckers

[@williamswenson5315]

Some of these little "water bears" may be sitting on the moon waiting for an atmosphere and a few drops of water.

[@DruNature]

@@waylontmccann damnit I almost spit out my foodQQ

[@urbanshadow777]

Joe: "have you ever been up late at night?" Me watching this at 1am: " why yes Joe, yes I have"

[@calebwitt4207]

Me reading this at 1 am: “there is another.”

[@Nevir202]

Me watching at near 4AM: No, why do you ask?

[@rickyv8709]

“Late at night” starts at 3 am

[@Phyto.]

Lmao it's 01:04 rn

[@BoulderWraith]

*thats the morning tho...*

[@alanaaites8292]

I have a friend of our family who owns a logging company in Canada. He claimed that they had also found a toad in a tree that was formed around it.

[@averagerick9581]

I just realized his tombstone would be read "RIP Rip"

[@skymaster4121]

= Rip^2

[@rikked391]

@@skymaster4121 (RIP)^2

[@propio2957]

When I was a kid, before I knew it stood for Rest In Peace, I actually thought it somehow had something to do with RIP Van Winkle

[@protus3882]

RIP OL’ RIP

[@the4tierbridge]

Luckily enough, Ol’Rip’s preserved body is in a little wooden box,

[@blakeallen8224]

Ol Rip must be where Looney Tunes got the idea of the singing frog that was in the time capsule

[@pakde8002]

Jumping tardigrades! I can't believe my auto-correct actually had that word in it's dictionary.

[@ryanrivard1455]

Ribbet

[@rachelgonzalez8051]

Michigan J Frog.

[@lovenliven1111]

That's what I was thinking

[@surferdude4487]

There was a novel called "Vaudeville" I think that's where they got the idea for the singing frog.

[@matthewweisenburger2095]

What fart smeller came up with the name “horned frog” for a lizard

[@superharryboy]

well it does look like a frog with horns

[@roberthofmann8403]

@Ignis Solus *must have

[@glintknot5474]

Better than horny frog

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

Yeah I'm still trying to figure out where it looks like a frog. Because I've seen frogs and toads and lizards before, and the horny toad looks like a lizard, walks like a lizard, quacks like a lizard. I'm pretty sure it's a lizard and I really have no idea what would possess someone to think otherwise.

[@voidofspaceandtime4684]

@Ignis Solus Look at images of an american toad, and then look at some weighty horned toads.

[@HolleeDaze]

This is crazy to me. In my family home (built in 1940) there was a rockery. We decided to take it out and there was a cavity with no way in and no way out and there was at least 10 frogs in there. We moved them to a safe place but we could never understand how they were surviving in there.

[@ThrottleKitty]

"Let's call horny toad something more appropriate!" "Like spike lizard?" "NO! Horn frog obviously!"

[@loganthesaint]

But it’s an actual lizard... it be a reptilian lizard. Not a toad, or frog.

[@Crazyarnold12]

@Travis Bohanan, ikr lol

[@Crazyarnold12]

And are you a Karen KITTY

[@ThrottleKitty]

@@loganthesaint that was litteraly the joke, I thanks for explaining the joke, jokes are always better when they are explained

[@johnjonjhonjonathanjohnson3559]

fraud

[@4077Disc]

I wish I could go to sleep and wake up in 2050.

[@stapuft]

THIS! omg this!

[@m0n4rch911]

Ever wonder why people believe Cryo sleep will be a thing coz it will be once we make it work. Wouldn't be surprised if they already made it work just not on a standard thats enough to publish coz humanitarian groups would eat em for lunch if they did.

[@3scrs334]

2021 would already be good enough for me

[@adamwest8711]

I’d settle for 2023 but, yeah. You’re not wrong.

[@bigmike9128]

@@3scrs334 me too just to get this year over with .😒

[@TheWrathsblade]

"They put a live animal in a time capsule"......Well, one could say, they took a Leap of Faith. I'll see myself out.

[@k1dicarus]

Contact?

[@matthewyabsley]

Yeah. Close the door after yourself.

[@christaylor9674]

2020s most underrated comment.

[@NineZeroHero]

Yeah hit the toad Jack and don’t ya come back no more

[@paultaylor4951]

I'll get your coat.

[@guyfreeman1549]

This is where the idea for the W.B. frog Michigan J. Frog came from who first appeared in the Loony Tunes short, "One Froggy Evening" (1955). He is found by a demo worker in a cornerstone and sings (while dancing) "Hello My Baby", but will not perform for anyone else making the man look crazy.

[@wits2014]

The frogs/toads going into suspended animation is a very real phenomena. I was a stone mason in my younger years. I split millions of stones in my life. On 3 separate occasions, I have split rocks open to see a toad or frog, in suspended animation, gradually come to life. (3 second to 10 min) The impression of the frog inside the stone exactly matched the body contours/dimensions of the animal. So there is no denying it. This effect of suspended animation has been studied by scientists for thousands of years.

[@kanahbis3236]

Imagine being trapped 20 feet underground in a tiny pitch black hole in a rock for 20+ years just waiting for someone to find u and set u free

[@vellapb1812]

When you are in that stage you will feel nothing, it is just like sleeping, you remember nothing about the hours you spent in sleeping and what happening around you, but you wake up fresh. Time become burdened when you are a prisoner.

[@brokenlegs8431]

Give that innocent frog the DIO treatment

[@Acoustic-Rabbit-Hole]

@@vellapb1812 Indeed. Yet, I'm sure the frog went on many astral voyages during those 20-plus years.

[@bobby_4505]

“Horny toads” aren’t toads or frogs at all, they’re a type of lizard. I feel like you already know that, but hearing you refer to Old Rip as a frog the whole video, it was hard to tell so I figured I’d throw in that piece of information.

[@305backup]

He said it at the beginning of the video.

[@perpetualbystander4516]

You mean it was hard to take and not tell, right? 😁

[@dennyshawyer4290]

Amphibians

[@noobatgames3321]

He said it's the state lizard

[@MoniJohnson]

@@dennyshawyer4290 Nah. It's a lizard, which is a reptile. Texas Horned lizards aren't aquatic/amphibious at all.

[@fredwood1490]

I remember hearing stories, when I was a kid, of coal Miners who found toads in coal seams and associated slate, toads and frogs who then hopped away! Thing is, there were no toads or frogs when that coal seam was laid down, they hadn't evolved yet. I always wonder how they got there, but then I remembered, Coal Miners! Wicked humor!

[@englishsteve1465]

Unless of course........................................time travelling amphibians ! Dun dun durrr !

[@purebloodsunite7489]

coal seams are only a few thousand years old, created in Noah's flood or Ogygian deluge.

[@globalSchelmuffsky]

the star shot idea: so basically, these tardigrades will be aliens and the laser sail will be their spaceship, to extrasolar civilizations

[@LG123ABC]

So did the toad start singing "Hello my darling, hello my baby, hello my ragtime gal"?

[@sonshinethomas7986]

Too funny.

[@theogdirkdiggler]

Hardy Har Harr

[@lhaviland8602]

CHECK PLEASE!

If ya refuse me then honey you'll lose me and you'll be left alone. So come on and tell me I'm your ooooooowwwwnn!!! Brrrrrrrrrrrpp. Brrrrrrrrrrpp.

[@aleisterlavey9716]

I bury them again if not...

[@Adam-xf6sq]

Frog: **goes to sleep in human world** *2 million years later* Frog: **wakes up** Lizard person: Hey you, you’re finally awake.

[@theharbingerofconflation]

Tried to cross the border like the rest of us?

[@katybug6572]

Haha

[@LazyCat010]

🎶 'Hello my baby! Hello my honey! Hello my ragtime gal ...'

[@PhoenixBeI]

One very impressive creature is the Andean hummingbird. It doesn't "die" for long periods of time, but it does it every single day! It's hella cold in the Andean night for a bird this tiny to survive. So it shuts down and waits for the sun to warm things up enough for it to wake up, and fly away looking for food. It's amazing! I cannot even comprehend how one can "die" every single day.

[@m0n4rch911]

Wait a minute. So since we can't find Aliens, we're gonna make some. Just shoot em in space and see what happens lmao. Tardigrade Galactic empire imminent.

[@davidmacphee3549]

Given enough time, the damn things can evolve into anything

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

Few actually end up on Moon.

[@BigDaddyWes]

Seems like a pretty big ethics problem to do so. The fact that we left some on the moon is a pretty big deal.

[@gkwame4981]

@@davidmacphee3549 They really don't have a need to evolve past their current selves seeing as they are the ultimate survival bug, unless of course they encounter something out there that poses a threat to their survival.

[@CeltKnight]

I for one welcome our Tardigrade Overlords! ;)

[@alfonsoflorio]

I have a memory of this when I was a kid. Saw a snippet on TV about a frog found in a rock

[@GustavG10]

I think Arthur C Clarks mysterious world featured this.

[@slhalmich]

the most extreme

[@grandetaco4416]

My mom used to buy the national enquirer and read it in there when I was a kid. I just figured National Enquirer has got to National Enquirer.

[@DJFRASSMAD]

Sooo there must be one Ancient lizard in Iceland right now waiting for the ice to melt

[@allenstearns1329]

You mean greenland.

[@steveswangler6373]

why must there be?

[@MikeBaxterABC]

5:57 More recently it has been learned that bears do not actually hibernate. Their metabolic rate does not decease enough to qualify them as actual Hibernation.

[@xiaoshenjing5246]

When I was about 9 or 10 .. I experimented trying to build a self-contained ecosystem.. Nothing Hi-Tech. It was a large metal coffee can.. with some dirt and plants growing in it. And a Little bit of water and a toad.. The coffee cans were place underwater, in a pond.. The plastic lid of the coffee can would allow in light.. These cans were left for 3 months 6 months and 12 months.. the plants very rarely ever survived.. But the Toads always did.. Except if you place them back into another can for another go-round.. Yes.. the lack of Humanity and morality is kind of disturbing.. but I was a serious curious weird child..

[@lil0of]

children are monsters

[@artsmart]

You may return as a toad in your next life;)

[@codyblea3638]

Jeeze, my dad had a rule, if I killed it, I had to eat it. Outside of disgusting vermin, if I popped say a squirrel with a BB gun. I had to clean, cook and eat it. Why? Because at an early age my dad explained our place in the food chain and the responsibility that comes with it.

[@jackbashed3494]

cody blea i like that rule

[@Rqptor_omega]

You are born to be a scientist

[@bullsquid42]

In German, Tardigrades are called "Bärtierchen", meaning "little bear-animals". So if there are in fact Tardigrades living on the moon, I demand we name one of them "Desmond".

[@vanessagiesbrecht4885]

wie bin ich hier hergekommen? ende.

[@dovakhiinmaster2967]

*OH MY GOSH YES*

[@DeafKingz]

So when Patrick had a pet rock that won the snail race, it was really just a toad in a rock

[@miketully9905]

A Horney Toad!! And here all this time I thought that only kids from my neighborhood called them that. One of the kids from our neighborhood had three of them he kept in an aquarium. At the time being around 7 or 8 the term "horney toad" didn't have the connotation it does to an adult. As far as we were concerned it was just what they were called. They looked a little like a toad. They were covered with horns. So... horney toads. Made sense to us. At that time we had absolutely no idea at all that they shot blood out of their eyes as a defense mechanism. and the thing is, we never, not once saw one of them do that. I had no idea at all they did that until I saw a documentary on "horned toads" when I was in my twenties. That said, I have to agree. Sealing some hapless horned toad into a "time capsule" and then cementing to poor devil into the corner of a building is just SICK.

[@wisecoconut5]

We called them horny toads in Utah, California and Colorado (my childhood homes)

[@BreakfastCruiser]

I think it’s awful too. No one would’ve given a shit about Old Rip if he hadn’t managed to survive in a time capsule for 31 years, but I don’t think he was after fame. Just some nice bugs and a lovely lady lizard.

[@michaelbuckers]

13:00 The universe is so empty that if you were to point your starship in a random direction and set it to halt 50 million kilometers from nearest object if flies by, there's 99% chance that it will leave the galaxy unimpeded and then never enter another galaxy.

[@drdca8263]

They would be aimed at alpha proximi or alpha centuri presumably

[@jts09]

"She turned me into a newt! I got better."

[@fryncyaryorvjink2140]

Well we did do the nose... And the hat.. but she is a witch!

[@hhfbko]

@@fryncyaryorvjink2140 That's cool and all but gru is the most powerful being in the universe. First according to the height of a Minion (which is 3.5 feet on average) Gru is 4 minions tall, which means he is a godly size of 14 feet tall. Second if any of you remember the original Despicable Me, you Know there is a scene when Vector kidnaps the three girls and shoots a series of heat-seeking misses at Gru, he then dodge them all. According to the speed of an average ballistic missile (1900 mph) and the size of the missile according to his ankle size, Gru can perceive and move at such a speed that the missiles only move 9.5 miles per hour, 0.5% of their original speed. Plus after this Gru punches a shark and it is paralyzed meaning its spine is probably shattered, to remind you it would require a force greater than 3,000 newtons to fracture the spine. That’s equal to the impact created by a 500-pound car crashing into a wall at 30 miles per hour. I rest my case.

[@homeyjeromy]

@@hhfbko who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?

[@13_13k]

@@fryncyaryorvjink2140 --- what do we do with witches? Burn them. What else burns? Wood burns. What does wood do? Wood floats. What else floats? A Duck. Right, so ... if she weighs as much as a Duck she's a witch.

[@saltymcginger2027]

@@13_13k I fucking died at that part.

[@martyknox2218]

What is even weirder is that when I think of something I want to see, it usually turns up in suggestions without me even searching for it! I was thinking about this very subject just this morning. 🤔

[@serioussmoke1123]

Same with me ! Randomly thinking about this subject for weeks (remember reading about it as a kid) have done no searches in youtube just playing in the back of my mind then here it is in my recommendations! Have you any ideas why?

[@vellapb1812]

During the times of stone mansionary. In India, before an idol was carved, the stone was covered with a paste made from sandalwood, it was done in order to check that there is no toad entomb, the stone was discarded if it was found to have a wet patch. The area where toad is entombed will stay wet.

[@davekewing1]

When I was a kid, 60 years ago, I actually found a live toad in hardpan clay when I broke open some looking for “water crystals” the hardpan clay would likely have been somewhat moist when not frozen but some unknown millennia old!

[@wits2014]

I was a stone mason in my younger years. I split millions of stones in my life. On 3 separate occasions, I have split rocks open to see a toad or frog, in suspended animation, gradually come to life. (3 second to 10 min) The impression of the frog inside the stone exactly matched the body contours/dimensions of the animal. So there is no denying it. This effect of suspended animation has been studied by scientists for thousands of years.

[@louf7178]

Amazing

[@davekewing1]

It’s a little crazy that since these critters have the possibility of going into a suspended state like at the bottom of a cold pond or frozen place that this state can be “permanent “ in all the multitude of possibilities over time and trillions of frogs/toads. It would apparently be possible to be in suspended animation for a very long time especially if their moisture is preserved. Alive but not , but a little oxygen and temperature then back alive! Sorta nuts! Yea like the little Tardigrades and Resurrection plants of which sounds like these can survive exposure to space as well!

[@davekewing1]

@@Jock-mj4zd oh no we are not talking igneous rock here just water formed stuff. Even that is hard to imagine toads in those formations but we saw it. Amazing and even unbelievable but yeah, true!

[@falmerbalmer1654]

@@wits2014 millions of rocks and only 3 times? That information is useful to make an stimation for research in the future

[@FantasKanal]

"Hey wanna create aliens" "You mean deported tartagrades?"

[@holycrusader3119]

guy: this horned toad would make a cool thing for them to study when it's dead. Toad: *Yes but actually no.*

[@daemonthorn5888]

It's not a toad. It is a lizard.

[@turtlejeepjen314]

Hahahaha!! The TOAD rely!!!🙂🙂

[@curiotrope]

This must be where Looney Tunes got the idea for the singing frog: "Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal..."

[@jokirkpa]

This may explain a situation that happened to me, when I was younger, which has bugged me for years. My sister used to catch frogs and lizards all the time and hide them away as pets. One day we were going through storage, and we found her old Gameboy bag. When we opened the front pouch to see what games were inside, there was a lizard...completely alive. This bag had been in storage for at least a year, maybe longer. The front pouch was velcroed shut, so there was no way I could crawl inside. I had no way to explain it how it could be inside the bag and still alive, so I sort of just forgot about it till now.

[@DavidJones-tp7td]

I remember being told in school (in Texas) the story of ol rip as a preface to our biology lesson on some frogs in Africa that entered a biostasis to survive long droughts. They were said to survive up to five years in that state. I can't remember the name of the frogs but I was definitely intrigued by the idea. I saw a PBS show about the same frogs a couple of years later that said NASA was studying them in hopes of learning how to do suspended animation on humans for interstellar travel. I hadn't thought about that in years, thanks Joe!

[@pablodiablo765]

the decline in cases since the 1900s might be due to the fact that we dont often break boulders etc by hand anymore.

[@AsherKadmiel]

oh no :( how many immortal toads have we crushed ?

[@freedumbfromtheleft3833]

The relief you feel after you finally get out of bed on a cold morning to take a leak, imagine how relieved the frog must feel holding it for an entire winter, let alone half a night!

[@freedomthroughspirit]

Austin Powers moment... 😆🤩

[@Gpcas9]

"Hello my baby, hello my honey Hello my ragtime, summertime gal ...." ;-)

[@tracewallace23]

Michigan J. Frog

[@bradyelich2745]

That was a long time ago, almost 50 years since the first time I saw that on Bugs Bunny.

[@g07denslicer]

OH MY GOD YES!

[@uegvdczuVF]

You are old! :) Excellent comment though!

[@Nipplator99999999999]

damn you to hell...that's going to be stuck in my head for a week now.

[@Aladato]

I always knew frogs were chill and didn't rush through life.

[@TheWizardGamez]

imagine becoming a rock in eurasia and waking up in Greenland, like DAMN ITS COLD, its supposed to be warmer

[@SeaDog337]

Do we really wanna go launching tardigrades into space? 'Cause that's how you get Tyranids.

[@wiseoldfool]

What could possibly go wrong?

[@jackthefrog80085]

Here where I live we have a very particular kind of environment called the caatinga, in which there are very long droughts and some lizards actually turn into a form of rock to hibernate until there's some rain. It's like they dehydrate to survive.

[@DonShmizzle23]

This man has a way of talking that makes you feel like you're in the same room staring him right in the face

[@poodiddly5011]

Hey Joe, the temperature graphic at 11:45 (when you show that tardigrades can survive up to 70C) has the labels backwards. 70C is _less_ than the boiling point of water. Love you bro keep the vids coming.

[@LoPhatKao]

not Joes fault that the people from "My Microscopic World" got it wrong in their infographic which Joe used

[@robinhooper7702]

I just love the way you introduce an idea and build on that through linguistics.

[@weirdkitty07]

"The Michigan Rag" episode of Looney Tunes, 1955. Yeah.

[@medievalterrence9691]

...was inspired by this story, the story of Ol' Rip. I was looking to see if someone mentioned it.

[@Markle2k]

Merry Melodies, not Looney Tunes.

[@albertmiller2electricbooga897]

Why does Texas have a state lizard?

[@mrman5517]

it's true, it was selected as homage to the every-man. the creature's scientific name is "lascivitis lacerti"

[@Gpcas9]

The Polar Bear was taken ;-)

[@larrymccandless8723]

Because about half of Texas is some form of Desert???

[@tracewallace23]

Florida's lizard can kick Texas' lizard's ass 🤣🤣🤣

[@fatalshore5068]

@@tracewallace23 But can Florida lizards live in a rock for 30 years? Texas Lizards playin the long game ;)

[@Dogerta]

Everyone gangsta till you go to see the lizard in the museum and it’s legs start kicking

[@audreymuzingo933]

Can't believe you forgot to mention the most important scientific fact about tardigrades: the fact that they are the #1 most adorable microbe in the known world.

[@rachelcookie321]

I always thought they look like bears in a hazmat suit

[@garnetame]

@@rachelcookie321 they also known by some (well, me at least) as water bears! Which is just adorable

[@billfred9411]

@@garnetame Many people call them water bears because that was one of the first names they were given by some german zoologist. Its a pretty fitting and endearing name and I'm guessing that's why it stook.

[@audreymuzingo933]

@@LuggageStardate The term 'microbes' just refers to size, not taxonomy.

[@N_Jones]

@@garnetame We always called them Moss-Piglets :)

[@thecarman3693]

Frog pops out of rock and begins singing: "Hello my honey, hello my baby, hello my ragtime doll ..."

[@bernardcharest7292]

"Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal" are the proper lyrics

[@CaptainShenanigans42]

Bernard Charest I think I've been on the internet too long, I saw this comment and before hitting the read replies button, said out loud "This comment is going to be correcting doll to gal". Basically, we should find more creative ways to tell each other they are wrong.

[@bobcourtier4674]

I found a rock inside a toad, chipped my tooth.

[@CrazyBear65]

I found a turd that had been inside a frog.

[@digi3218]

@@CrazyBear65 I found a fossilized turd in a rock inside a toad, that was in a rock. Also chipped the tooth I had left.

[@radioanon4535]

@@digi3218 r/holup

[@christaylor9674]

Said the frenchman ;) Cheeky racism so one will care about... you know because racism only encapsules certain colours. ;)

[@jakeapplegate6642]

The crunchy frog Monty python skit cracks me up.

[@FusionSource]

Hey Joe, another great video, so interesting.

[@bee4472]

When I was 16 my parents bought some land in the country, at the bottom of the hill was a pond that did not hold water, it had thick mud when it was purchased, but it dried up and was usually hard cracked dirt, when it rained a lot it would fill about 5’ with water, and when it did there were 2 large gold fish that would appear, this happened for probably 4 or 5 years. After that never saw them again

[@IntrepidFraidyCat]

I caught my cat drinking the sea monkeys when I was little. Ick 😖

[@Jacob0148]

Mmm crunchy

[@geoffsecombe]

My sister bought me sea monkeys for my birthday a few years ago. My drunk girlfriend drank them. Really.

[@AnimeShinigami13]

maybe it wasn't getting enough salt? my cat's also drunk his share of rainwater and chewed random plants to get my attention. of course this cat will also steal smoothie or yogurt left out unattended. XD

[@mollysministuff]

My goldfish loves brine shrimp. My cat sometimes eats the fish pellets I drop, and I bet he would eat those too. lmao

[@lukeh2556]

Salty protein shake, I guess

[@claytonamboy8834]

Keep doing videos like this, I love it when you talk about stuff like this

[@karellen00]

Try to imagine how much a wood frog feels the urge to pee when it wakes up after being frozen!

[@antoniojones5340]

"HELLO MY HONEY, HELLO MY DARLIN', HELLO MY RAGTIME GAL..."

[@cyza1982]

YES! I couldn’t be the only one that remembered that cartoon kzbin.info/www/bejne/bICmq6t5fbKlprc

[@dennistucker1153]

Life, in all its forms continue to amaze me. I believe the frog/lizard stories. I think spores are awesome for survivability too. Another very good video. Thanks Joe.

[@trogdortheburninator3621]

Hooray for the water bears! I had sea monkeys. I loved seeing the eggsacs on the ladies and the males battling to the death for breeding dominance. They (and chickens) were my favorite childhood pet. Both have funny ways and personalities.

[@craigjones1140]

I remember when I was 5, and was dinging pretty deep and lifted a rock and found a frog . Never thought any thing of it till I watched this vid .

[@edoardom3677]

This happened to me as a kid in a park with friends, we heard some croaking and we broke a three outer shell and found 2 frogs inside it, they probably entered it from some other way and got trapped, but as a kid it felt magical, and to this day it feels surreal to remember about this story (usually because it doesnt come to my mind often)

[@simonenasty3842]

One time i was collecting rotten wood for my beatles (yes I am strange) and inside a semi-rotten wood trunk and i mean INSIDE (i opened it with an axe) i found a live toad, and i was like "wtf how did you get there ??"

[@waylontmccann]

The toad was probably like "wtf, how did I get in here? How did YOU?" Lol

[@Benjamin-uz2dx]

Rie Ta Please don’t have children

[@pakde8002]

@ungratefulmetalpansy wow...he said wow

[@mattiefee]

So, my wife's cold blooded demeanor will make her outlast me...yay nature.

[@samuelsocha8384]

"there's nothing that special about the wood frog" wood frogs after hearing this :(

[@Willkillson180]

For the sea monkey thing, both packets of the sea monkeys contained the eggs. The second packet also contained dye so it would better highlight the fish. The two packet solution was a marketing strategy to uphold the whole "They come alive immediately" claim, but was just a trick as it took a day or so.

[@vedritmathias9193]

Knowing the extremes nature will go to to survive, I believe that "Ol' Rip" is a true story.

[@entrippyZ]

calling it a frog causes several servos in my brain to just stop working

[@think2086]

Even if they cheated, the fact they "came up" with the idea in the first place is much more likely because it was already a well-known secret about the horned toad as observed by natives.

[@louf7178]

A "well-known" "secret"?

[@Aconitum_napellus]

I remember overhearing some old coalminers in the UK, talking about finding frogs in rocks underground upon cracking them open, they would appear dead but when moved or brought to the surface they would 'come back to life' and hop off apparently up harmed. It's stuck with me for years.