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Animals sealed in stone; Cases of living animals encased in rock!
Topic Started: Sep 5 2006, 07:04 AM (405 Views)
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I found this to be absolutely amazing! Just wanted your thoughts on it!

Animals Sealed in Stone

Amazing cases of living frogs, toads and lizards found encased within solid rock
ONE OF THE greatest Warner Bros. cartoons of all time is the one about the singing frog. A construction worker, demolishing an old building, finds a time capsule in the cornerstone. When he opens it, out leaps a grinning green frog, which commences to dance and sing old show tunes: "Hello, my baby... hello, my honey... hello, my ragtime gal...." The construction worker is amazed and quickly sees that this astonishing find will make his fortune. He quits his job and opens a theatre starring his talented amphibian. When the curtain rises on opening night, however, the frog just sits and croaks.
The construction worker never questions how the frog was able to sing and dance. He doesn't even question how it managed to survive so long in an airtight time capsule without food or water.

In 1761, Ambroise Pare, physician to Henry III of France, related the following account to the Annual Register: "Being at my seat near the village of Meudon, and overlooking a quarryman whom I had sent to break some very large and hard stones, in the middle of one we found a huge toad, full of life and without any visible aperture by which it could get there. The laborer told me it was not the first time he had met with a toad and the like creatures within huge blocks of stone."
In 1865, the Hartlepool Free Press reported that excavators working on a block of magnesium limestone taken from about 25 feet underground near Hartlepool, England, discovered a cavity within the stone that contained a live toad. "The cavity was no larger than its body, and presented the appearance of being a cast of it. The toad's eyes shone with unusual brilliancy, and it was full of vivacity on its liberation. It appeared, when first discovered, desirous to perform the process of respiration, but evidently experienced some difficulty, and the only sign of success consisted of a 'barking' noise, which it continues to make invariably at present on being touched. The toad is in the possession of Mr. S. Horner, the president of the Natural History Society, and continues in as lively a state as when found. On a minute examination of its mouth is found to be completely closed, and the barking noise it makes proceeds from its nostrils. The claws of its fore feet are turned inwards, and its hind ones are of extraordinary length and unlike the present English toad. The toad, when first released, was of a pale colour and not readily distinguished from the stone, but shortly after its colour grew darker until it became a fine olive brown."

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That is incredibly strange.

Maybe oneday someone will be able to explain this mystery
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Yes it is weird. I have read about this one before and it still blows my mind how they live.... yak
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I mean it just makes no sense how can a frog live under ground in solid rock that seems as if was molded around the thing over the centuries possibly survive!

I mean i have read a few suggestions that anwer a few things like the frogs or lizards being able to live off of the oxygen and moisture seeping through the porous rocks!

Some of that just doesnt seem to make any sense though because they have been found in solid non porous metal ore!

It is very amazing though and i would like to learn more on this phenomenon but i cant seem to find much on it! :unsure:
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Maybe they go into some kind of hibernation? it's about the only thing I can think of.
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Well yeah in every case they were in a state of hibernation and quickly came to life after being freed from they're solid tomb!
But it's just that frogs only hibernate through winter and only a few inches up to a foot or so under ground!
What does'nt make sense is finding them sealed in 30 foot deep of bedrock supposedly from a 100 + thousand years ago!
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