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Rock Frogs
This
mummified corpse of a frog was found in a hollow flint 'geode' which was
cracked open in 1899 by workmen in a quarry in England. There have been
many reports of frogs found inside rocks; some still living in a kind of
stupor but which revived once exposed to the air.
In 1910 a living toad was found when a piece of
coal was broken open; another was found in 1906 six feet underground
in a solid layer of clay. The most commonly found seem to be stuck in
limestone.
The theory is that a small tadpole somehow enters a crack in a forming
nodule or pocket and gets trapped in there as it grows. As it does, the
smell attracts tiny insects which feed the toad and keep it alive. Through
this crack also comes water and air. This is fine for some of the many
examples that have been found but makes no sense in cases where live frogs
have been found in totally sealed or deeply buried pockets.
Some frogs have been found with the impression of
their bodies so tightly jammed against the rock 'pocket' that even the
skin's crackles can be seen imprinted on the sides of their frog-shaped
hole --meaning the rock formed around them somehow.

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