But these aren’t the only places to find slumbering critters. During hibernation, animals slow their metabolisms and match their internal body temperatures to ambient conditions. Whether tropical ...

An international animal welfare group announced the start of March Napness, a March Madness-style bracket tournament tracking ...

One of the great marvels of nature is how bears, the largest carnivore in North America, are able to hibernate all winter, ...

The cold, dark winter months can make it difficult for animals to find food and water. Hibernation helps some animals survive this time. These animals become inactive to save energy. An animal in ...

Simply put, hibernation is a process that some animals go through in winter to ... “Hedgehog highways are really important, they are simply a 13cm x 13cm square gap in the bottom of (or under ...

Two weeks after the animals made their way out of hibernation, the researchers noted ... these drastic metabolic rev-ups "really challenge the body to the extreme, from zero to 100," Greene ...

“What’s really exciting is that it ties the seasonal behaviors ... Scientists had previously modeled how rabies infects animals that don’t hibernate, such as skunks or raccoons. But those models ...

And entering a hibernation-like state could work better ... which is common in animals and in which body temperature and energy use drops. Ageing is a complex phenomenon that we’re just starting ...