Hibernation allows many animals to survive winters, which are dark and cold, without having to migrate elsewhere or search for food under the threat of predation, injury, or death.

When we think of hibernation, most of us imagine animals snoozing through the cold months. But guess what? Some creatures are ...

Lots of hibernating animals build up big fat stores when food is plentiful so that they can use them up. When they're hibernating, fat tail lemurs can hibernate for up to seven months at a time.

Lots of arctic animals, including bears, woodchucks and chipmunks, hibernate through the cold winter months. During hibernation, these animals aren't sleeping. Instead, their heart rate, body ...

Hibernation takes a lot of preparation, and it’s an often misunderstood behavior in animals. There are very few animals in the world that truly hibernate. In Nebraska, those animals include ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Right now, millions of animals are in a deep sleep across Minnesota and Wisconsin, a process called hibernation. And while black bears are probably the most famous ...

During hibernation, animals slow their metabolisms and match their internal body temperatures to ambient conditions. Whether tropical hibernators—primates in particular—use similar cellular and ...

The discovery of a hibernation-like state in an Early Triassic species suggests animals may have been using torpor to avoid the challenges of winter for at least 250 million years.

“Therefore, by bringing together data from humans and hibernating animals, we were able to uncover candidate master regulatory switches in the genome for controlling mammalian obesity.” In all, the ...

Have you ever been a little groggy when you woke up? Maybe your family was leaving really early in the morning for vacation and your mom or dad woke you ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Lower temperatures cause some animals to go into hibernation. However, only a couple mammals in Massachusetts hibernate for the winter. As those temperatures start to ...