Frog found alive encased in a stone!
By Riptide
@Riptide (2755)
United States
June 8, 2007 9:18am CST
On 8 May 1733, when the master builder Johan Gråberg went to inspect the quarry of Wamlingebo (now Vamlingbo) in Sweden, two of the quarrymen came running up from the excavation in a most excited state. While cutting large blocks of sandstone more than 10ft (3m) below the surface, one of them had discovered a large frog sitting in the middle of a sizeable boulder he had just cut in two with his hammer and wedge. Gråberg followed the workmen .....
http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/477/toad_in_the_hole.html
I am wondering, how this is possible. Don't rocks take thousands of years to form and how did that frog get caught up in there? And how can he still be alive, without food and water and, well air.
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@magikrose (5429)
• United States
8 Jun 07
That is intresting and very rare. The thing to rememberthat frogs hybernate in the winter so maybe he was hybernating all this time. Who knows anything is possible in this case.


