Enjoy our cross-curricular unit on hibernating animals, designed to engage young learners in the incredible ways animals ...

Winter has long served as a season of stillness, a biological pause, for hibernating animals. When that pause disappears, the ...

A trio of researchers, two with Universidad Austral de Chile, and one with Universidad Católica de Chile, has found that a gram of hibernating bat has a similar metabolism to a gram of hibernating ...

When winter arrives, animals have two main choices: sleep more or shut down almost completely until spring. You’ve probably heard of hibernation, but not every animal that slows down in winter truly ...

Hibernating animals’ superpowers could lie hidden in our own DNA, opening the door to developing treatments that could reverse neurodegeneration and diabetes. Animals that hibernate are incredibly ...

Visible in the entrance to their den are a mother black bear, who has been sedated, and her female cub. Scientists are watching to see how bears will tweak their hibernation habits as the climate ...

Animals that hibernate: Many animals go into hibernation when winter comes, which is one of nature's most amazing ways to stay alive. If you're wondering which animal hibernates the longest, the ...

Hibernation is much more than taking an extended nap. A hibernating animal will have a drastic reduction in their metabolism and will wake slowly. In contrast, a sleeping animal only slightly ...