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

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

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

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

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.

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. 🤯😵🤪🤠

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

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"

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".

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.

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.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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".

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

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

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. 🤔

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

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

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.

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

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

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

This is no different than the desert toads that seem to "fall from the sky" after a good rain. I lived in Arizona for several years and I remember going on a work trip, it rained (a lot) on our way home, for a long stretch of two-lane highway there were toads everywhere on the road and on the sides of the road in the headlights. The road was carpeted with them. I ran over so many that I thought I could feel them. At that moment, I understood why people thought things like "frogs rained from the sky" which was a myth I'd heard growing up. They didn't rain from the sky but they were buried in the desert, hibernating, and were revived by the rain. Freaky and fascinating.

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.

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

I once had a pet frog, Frogzilla, that escape from his cage. Jump forward 6 years when we we moving, I found him all dried up in my closet. Not fully understanding the difference between frogs and fish deaths, I went to flush Frogzilla only for him to start hopping around just as I flushed the toilet... Needless to say, I was quite upset...

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

My father was telling me about the frog in a rock phenomenon... and there are so very many accounts! (and that's without old Rip) We both were skeptical of course ,and thought there must be a logical explanation.....then Dad looked at me and said "but what if?"!

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!!!

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.

“Frog condemned to 30 years of solitary confinement for god knows what reason”

This is where the Warner Bros "One Froggy Evening" idea came from, I bet.

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

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.

I live an hour and a half away from Eastland and had never heard that story. Imma go see dat toad

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)

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

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

there are stories of country folk who regularly hibernated the winters until fairly recently.. as well as cases of people crashing in snow and hibernating for months until discovered.. and I heard something recently about bacteria being found inside ancient crystal formations..????

I like to think that if we send tardigrades out into space in random directions, eventually they will evolve into indestructible aliens that destroy all life in the universe.

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Good video! Really captured my attention when you started talking about how this video got started. I felt like that could’ve been the intro.

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

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.

I don't know why but the thought of President Coolidge meeting a really old lizard this kind of tickles me pink. It's like "MR PRESIDENT MR PRESIDENT WE FOUND SOME REALLY COOL SHIT TO SHOW YOU" and then two secret servicemen fumble over each other trying to be the first to bring the president the cool thing they want to show him lol

This is weird because I have a memory as a child playing with lava rocks in my grandfathers garden. I cracked one open with another rock and a small frog was in one. I will never forget that!

Some frogs can get completely frozen in water for months and then thaw in the spring and come back like normal. They have some kind of antifreeze in their blood, lower their metabolism and heart rate so they don’t starve and dehydrate to death. Pretty amazing animals. Edit: I commented before watching.

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

This is why I subscribe to this channel: so I can wander down a fascinating rabbit hole of facts (or suppositions) that I've been unaware of my entire inquisitive life... and I'm also old enough to remember sea monkeys, so that's going back a ways.

I was digging a duck pond on my property and about 4ft deep we found a turtle. Little fella hung around the duck pond for a few years after that.

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

“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.

Short version: when I was a kid, my dad, brother and me were at a limestone pit atop a hill in rural northwestern Washington. We broke open a pillow-sized stone and a milky-eyed, light-tan/white-ish toad hopped out of a hole. Below is the whole story, thanks for taking the time in advance. Finding a toad in rock. In 2001 or possibly summer of 2002, my dad, my older brother, and me were on a relatively routine hike up to the top of a hill nearby. We lived in rural western Washington, about a hundred miles due north and another 30 miles due east from there, right along the Canadian border in the greater Chilliwack Valley (CA)/Mount Baker foothills (US). Depending on what geographic features you're accustomed to, a 1,200' hill (and back) may seem a daunting task for a couple pre-adolescent kids, but my brother and I just sputtered along. The hills in the region were famed in the early 1900s for their excellent grade of Denovian and Pennsylvanian-age limestone, but while several different companies built and operated billion-dollar factories for decades, they all flamed out and faded into irrelevance before 1950, but I digress. We hiked that day and arrived in the early afternoon to the "summit" of the hill, where one of our favorite things to do was to poke around for fossils a bit further down the other side a ways, to a quarry that was blasted there and hastily abandoned after that particular firm went belly-up in the 1910s. The pit is interesting in that the geologic features change dramatically from one rock face to the next, and though we didn't know dick about limestone, the different types of limestone, fossils, geology, etcetera, we did notice that one particular area yielded amazing (to us) fossils every time, and the rock easily broke open if an interesting shell or palm leaf, crinoid stem, whatever, were partially visible. Just a few pages away however, the rock was hard as fuck and nothing of interest was ever found there, though both areas are limestone beds. On that day, my dad took an ancient roofing hammer we'd found near an abandoned quarry building on a previous dig, and smashed open a rock about the size of a throw-pillow in all dimensions (except heavier lol). The rock was almost completely vertical, and larger rocks sandwiched it in place in every direction. My dad was not a huge guy, but he worked with a hammer all his life and drills in framing nails in one swing. The first wack busted a chip off the face of the stone. The next wack fractured it pretty good, and the third wack broke the fuckin thing in half and sent the pieces down the embankment, and lo! Behold, a small cubby-like hole about six inches tall, four inches across, and six inches deep. Inside the cubby was a toad, sitting there as if it were some kind of Halloween-gag. The three of us stared in silence for a moment, then looked at each other, and then my brother reached his hand in to grab this impossible creature. When he got a few inches from the dusty animal, it opened its eyes, and they were milky-white. I'll never forget that, as it slowly opened its eyes and they were a bit startling, all white like that, staring right into the brilliant sunlight. The fact that it was apparently alive startled my brother, and he decided not to try and grab it. Instead, we just sat there looking at this thing that could not be, and it stared out at us. I remember that it was dusty, too, and that it made no sound. After about 10-15 seconds of it staring out, it hopped a stunted little leap, then sprang a huge distance, landing about 10 feet down the scree. It hopped one last time, and then disappeared into the woods. Nobody ever believed us lol. I've rationalized it a million ways in my own head over the years, but I remain convinced that what we all thought happened, happened, and that a living toad was somehow encased in solid rock. It was an odd looking thing, too, dusty and lightly colored, not like any toad I'd ever seen. Anyway, I believe these toad -in-rock stories as I've seen one myself.

A hibernating turtle's heartbeat goes down to 1 per 5 minutes.

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.

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

Very interesting content, Definitely going to watch more of your videos!

Bears don't hibernate. They go into a state of "torpor".

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..

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

Joe, I have a pretty darn cool Brine Shrimp story.I live is a basement suite, I have a pond right outside my back door that I built on a set os cement stairs ( I know. Cool eh?). There are three windows in the pond so I can just open my door and watch the fish swimming around. I have angelfish in there, and goldfish too. For treats during the summer, I take 2 or 3 frozen cubes of brine shrimp ( it is a staple of the Aquarium fish food trade along with blood worms) and put them in a cup then boil water, and half fill a cup. When the frozen shrimp are thawed, I put it into the tank. Three years ago, I went through the process, and pored the water in, and went to the window to watch. . The fish always go nuts for this food ,so it is always a small show . Guess what I saw swimming around right before it got gobbled up? Plain as day, there was a single Brine shrimp! So this poor thing had been scooped up and flash frozen, stored for however many months, then had boiling water poured over it, and there it was, just swimming around...

Tortoises hibernate in the winter and can slow there heart rate down to 1 beat per 10 min. Or so I've heard... Also I love that you made the Tardigrades party on the moon lol

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

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

I've got a Leopard Gecko that, a few years ago, basically refused to eat for about a year, she barely ate anything whatsoever, refused food whenever I offered her any, but she didnt lose any significant amount of weight over that entire year. Nowadays, she can still be a picky eater, and I'm having some doubts about how good her eyesight still is, but she is starting to get old so I guess thats not too big of a surprise, and otherwise she's still doing just fine. So yeah, wouldnt be surprised if some reptiles or amphibians could survive without food for a year or two, though I must admit 30 is kind of pushing it... and oxygen might also be nice...

When you find a T-Rex inside our pet rock. This reminds me of the needles in strawberries incident over here in Australia

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!

When I was a kid growing up in the UK well over 60 years ago, there was a local story about a toad that came out of a lump of coal when someone hit the coal with a hammer and broke it open.

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.

There's a Warner Bros cartoon with the hello my honey frog being sealed into a cornerstone I can remember from being a kid.

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

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.

Interesting topic, great information, and your segue was great and effortless as well. Thanks for sharing.

Tardigrades are like the perfect organism. They do what everything tries to, and survives, almost indefinitely