What's the scientific explanation for "stone entombed animals"??

Question

How in the WORLD could a living creature survive/LIVE encased within a tree or stone, yet obviously there's been many discoveries in history, of this fact.--that once a stone or tree is opened, this trapped being w/little to no air and NO food LIVES?
Okay, explain it lol
I'm so curious

Answer 1

I just had a short look, being curious as I never really heard about this. I doubt that the phenomen exists for the cases where no opening at all exists. If you look at the examples cited, you'll see that they are all far back and don't sound very reliable. The only more recent example (1975) involved a turtle in poured concrete...
The most likely explanation is that there were animals, but they were not completely enclosed in stone. All the examples involve cold blooded animals which have a much lower metabolism and can hibernate. If an animal can hibernate it doesn't need food/water and very little air during that time.

Answer 2

There is no clear explanation for the occasional stone or tree, that when split open, are found to contain an animal, usually a frog or a toad, but sometimes other relatively small cold blooded creatures - very often found alive. The fact seems insane and yet its true. Tibetan Buddhists believe such creatures are prisoners in one of the levels of hell found outside the main circles of hell (as we shall soon see). In the
Stone Entombed Animals

West the most popular theory is that a young animal wanders into a small hole and then grows too large to crawl out. The hole allows air, water and insects to get in, and thus explains how the animal survives. Yet this theory ignores the vast majority of the cases where there is no visible hole in the stone that entombs the animal. Experts have a way of dismissing unpalatable finds as frauds, hoaxes, evidence of mental instability, or just that witnesses eyes are not to be trusted.

There are many cases of entombed animals being liberated from solid rock and sometimes even coal. In June 1851 well diggers at Blois, France split open a large flint rock and were startled to find a live toad inside. Another toad was inadvertently freed from a solid lump of ore broken up by miners in Derby England, in 1852. And a Scientific American article in 1853 reported the discovery of a horned lizard alive in a block of stone in New Mexico, USA.

We can also see an example of a wood entombment by looking at a story from South Africa. In 1876 the Uitenhage Times printed an article reporting that a timber man who was cutting a tree into planks came across a cache of 69 tiny toads, each the size of a grape. The toads were confined to a hole in the tree. "They were of a light brown, almost yellow color, and perfectly happy, hopping about and away as if nothing had happened. All about them was solid yellow wood, with nothing to indicate how they could have got there, how long they had been there, or how they could have lived without food, drink or air."

Answer 3

There is no clear explanation for the occasional stone or tree, that when split open, are found to contain an animal, usually a frog or a toad, but sometimes other relatively small cold blooded creatures - very often found alive. The fact seems insane and yet its true. Tibetan Buddhists believe such creatures are prisoners in one of the levels of hell found outside the main circles of hell (as we shall soon see). In the West the most popular theory is that a young animal wanders into a small hole and then grows too large to crawl out. The hole allows air, water and insects to get in, and thus explains how the animal survives. Yet this theory ignores the vast majority of the cases where there is no visible hole in the stone that entombs the animal. Experts have a way of dismissing unpalatable finds as frauds, hoaxes, evidence of mental instability, or just that witnesses eyes are not to be trusted.

Answer 4

There is obviously a hole in the rock or wood that a tadpole and bugs to feed it could swim into. Rocks often have little holes that wouldn't be noticed and destroyed when the rock or wood is opened. Hole in wood is caused by grubs or termites. Holes in rocks, and I have found them, are often fossilized worm holes or something similar.

Answer 5

say what? Mind giving some sort of reference here?