Fishes and frogs are believed to get caught in updrafts. Specimens reported
are usually pretty small, although I recall one case of a larger fish
encased in ice striking an automobile. The phenomenon was reported in the
journal Science sometime around the turn of the century (had the citation a
few months ago but mislaid it) and was a column topic for Ann Landers
sometime during the 70's. In one of his earlier books (probably "Stranger
than Science" or "Strangest of All"), Frank Edwards reports some well-known
cases.
Re fossil and hard-bodied invertebrate preservation: a friend of mine uses a
mixture of Krylon and melted styrofoam as a protective coating for his
fossils and bivalves. He says that a lot of museum palaeontologists and
malacologists use the same thing.
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