Can any animal survive after being frozen?

Question

if a pond with fish in it was frozen solid, could the fish in the pond survive when the pond thawed out?

Answer 1

Yes. Goldfish do it every year if they live outside.

Answer 2

Here is why that no one has figured out but me. Noah's flood had to be a world wide flood like The Bible says it was for this to happen. As the sea level rose as the Earth filled with water it would have pushed the atmosphere up with it. The water would have been like a giant piston in a cylinder pushing the air up as the water rose. This would have made the air temperature and oxygen rise with it. So when the ark came to a stop at 30,000 feet or better the atmosphere would have been the same as it was prior to the flood. So I imagine that the glaciers at the tops of mountains would have melted during that time because of the increase of the atmospheric temperature and water temperature. As the sea level started to drop and the ark became grounded on Mt Ararat Noah and the animals could easily have survived. As time went by and the sea level continued to drop the atmosphere would have dropped with it. This would have forced Noah and the animals to abandon the ark at the top of Mt. Ararat to start following the water level back down the mountain. This would have eventually cause the glaciers to reform at the tops of mountains around the world and bury the ark under ice and snow for a long time to come.

Answer 3

I remember that once a person escaped from Cuba in the undercarriage of a plane going to Spain. The man was probably frozen during the journey but he survived. He fell on the tarmak upon landing but he recovered from his injuries.

At the time people speculated that he stayed alive because he was wearing only a t-shirt/pants and was "fast frozen". The speculation was also that if he had warm clothes, the "slow freeze" would have kill him.

Answer 4

No! Go fishing and catch one that is legal size and freeze it in your freezer with out gutting it and alive, and leave it in there for a few days. Then take it out to thaw it and put it back in a pond and ask yourself did it became alive after it.

Answer 5

No, but certain frog species can survive being frozen because they can produce their own gylcol, similar to automotive anti-freeze, which prevents cell destucstion. All living cells consist of 90 to 95% water, if they freeze, the cell membrane will rupture and the damage is fatal.

Answer 6

Looks like some turtles can survive:

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?id=doi:10.1086/420952&erFrom=-7586505474655623328Guest

Not worms, not fish. Fish survive winter in unfrozen water beneath the ice. If the lake freezes solid the fish die.

Some insects can survive as well.

Answer 7

I think certain frogs can be frozen and survive through some special adaptation, but I don't believe so in the example you use.

Answer 8

Only the top of the pond freezes. The ice expands, weighs less and stays on top

BUT,,,take a look at this amazing video

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/2006/10/frogreborn.html

Answer 9

Certain frogs can. I watched it on the Discovery Channel.

Answer 10

There are certain amphibians that can be frozen then thawed but mostly frogs. ;-)

Answer 11

Absolutely.

For an example check out turtles, in Canada in particular.