sealed frog

1 - Bitfo 2 - Bitfo viridis 3 - Bitfo calamifa
continuation of the theme of anabiosis

Let's think, is it possible that a person has absolutely no influence from Time? Is it a joke - to stop Eternity, even in a small volume of the human body! Now the process of a complete stoppage of Time can be imagined except that only theoretically, it can quite occur in black holes or time machines. With practice, things are much worse: we have not yet documented evidence, saying "zero-time." But you can find cases when Time, if not completely stopped, then at least tended to zero. Consider whether they are facts or just information to think about - it's up to you.
ANIMALS-SUPERSANGULAR - that's who we should pay attention to. Many ancient sources tell us of incredible findings, indicating that some animals can live in comparison with us for ages. Again, we will not consider here cases when anglers caught a pike, ringed even under Peter-I, or remember that some individuals of turtles live for half a millennium ("Guinness Book of Records" considers authentically recorded lifetimes for carp - 228 years, Arctic holed Notothenia - 150, sturgeon - only 82, turtles - 152, elephant - 81). Biology in an alliance with statistics may well explain such "miracles".
To stretch the life of physicians try differently, and apart from "ordinary" longevity, scientists also struggle over the problem of anabiosis, which allows, if not to live a full-fledged life of more proper, then "theoretically" for as long as possible. Something that a person can not do (except for cases with lethargic dreams and miracles of yoga) is successfully used by many animals that hibernate during the winter or droughty period (North American salamander Dwarf sirens in drought, for example, sleep more than a year). With the anabiosis (or hibernation) for the body Time (biological, at least) really stops (more precisely, it becomes close to zero), so that all vital functions slow down thousands of times or stop completely!
The undoubted leader among the contenders for the title of "eternal animal" are the frogs! The choice here is not accidental, although amphibians live for a few years (the official record is 55 years, specifically for the frogs even less - 29), but they most often fall into the lumps of mud, which, when frozen, turns into thousands of millions of years into real stones . The lifetime of the stone with the "captive" is easily verified by radiocarbon or other geological method. There are no other ways to check the age of the "eternal", if only because, in ancient times, the animals were not ringed. Frogs, according to eyewitness accounts, remained alive inside the stones all this time:
In the 16th century, Ambroise PARE, the court surgeon of Henry III, wrote about attempts to break up large and hard stones in a manor near Meudon (France): "... In the middle of one stone, we discovered a huge living toad. There were no cracks in the stone through which she could get inside ... The worker told me that he was not the first time to find toads and similar creatures in large blocks of rock. "
May 25, 1776 in England, according to the chronicler Hilbert WHITE, was also found buried in a stone toad. The mummified frog was spotted inside a piece of coal extracted from the Macklin coal bed (Pennsylvania) from a depth of 541 feet (181 m). An employee of the US Department of Geology, James STIVENSON, said that "the body has not yet had time to petrify, it is light and soft."
In 1862, the flow of such reports increased significantly after a piece of coal with a clear frog print and a frog found in the Newport Coal Mine (Monmouthshire) were displayed at the Great London Exhibition. Skeptics, of course, unanimously asserted that this fake and frog could not have been millions of years while forming a coal seam, living at a depth of 300 feet (100 m). Bricklayer Samuel GOODWIN sawed with his assistants a one and a half meter monolithic stone in the career of Cattlebrook (Birmingham) and discovered in its middle a cavity the size of two fists, extracted from there a toad lived in the fresh air for about half an hour. In the coal depots of Lileshal (Paddington), a medium-sized living frog was noticed after a piece of coal had been split. In the castle Chillingham the same find was made in a marble stone slab ... On another estate after the fall of a stone ball that adorned the top of the gate for hundreds of years, inside found a living toad!
EXPERIMENTS WITH THE SANDBALLS, despite all their seeming simplicity, however, were not held so often. Although, it would seem, scientists should rush to check these fantastic rumors in an experimental way - if not out of confidence in success, then at least out of hope to solve the centuries-old dreams of humanity.
So, in the XIX century the Frenchman M. Segin bricked up 20 toads in a block of plaster and in 12 years found four of them alive.
In 1825, another researcher, Dr. Frank, planted 12 toads in lumps of limestone and sandstone, tightly closed them with sheets of glass and slate with putty, and then buried a meter into the ground ... A year later he discovered that the toads in the sandstone had died, and in limestone even have added (???) in weight. Repeated experiment with him ended unsuccessfully.