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

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As weird as it sounds, there are dozens of stories of animals, especially toads, found in rocks. Can this really be real? Because nature has developed some amazing survival strategies and there are creatures that can survive being frozen or entombed for long periods.

In this video, we explore the story of Old Rip, the horned frog that survived being locked in a time capsule for 30 years, and examine tardigrades, which might be living on the moon right now.

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Frogs Legs Rag by Kevin MacLeodLink
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All Comments (21)
  • @mainlegends8841
    Everything's fun and games until a dinosaur is found in a boulder.
  • @CheapAngler
    "not quite alive, but not quite dead." Schrodinger's Frog.
  • @lucaswalker4914
    This really makes me wonder how many prehistoric nightmares are just waiting for a good rain...
  • @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.
  • @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.
  • @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. 🤯😵🤪🤠
  • @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"
  • 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
  • @timepear
    When old Rip woke up he started singing,"Hello my baby! Hello my honey! Hello my rag time gal!"
  • @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.
  • @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".
  • @djfrassmad843
    Sooo there must be one Ancient lizard in Iceland right now waiting for the ice to melt
  • @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".
  • @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
  • @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
  • @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
  • 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...
  • The pterodactyl story sounds more like they hit some underground gas while digging and where TRIPPING BALLS!
  • guy: this horned toad would make a cool thing for them to study when it's dead. Toad: Yes but actually no.
  • @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. 🤔