Explore impressive adaptations animals have evolved for coping with sub-zero temperatures. How do penguins stop their feet ...

The time of year an animal goes into hibernation depends on its species and the current temperatures. Some animals only hibernate for a few weeks, while other true hibernators rest for moths. List ...

Scientists are exploring how animal models—hibernators, extremophiles, and small organisms—can help counteract the health ...

But hibernating animals, like bears and ground squirrels, don’t have this problem. Now, a study published in Science on April 13 helps explain why hibernating bears rarely get blood clots, despite ...

Simply put, hibernation is a process that some animals go through in winter to survive harsh conditions, when it is cold, dark and difficult to find food and water. Animals such as bats ...

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 ...

For warm-blooded animals that don’t migrate, one way to survive the winter is to sleep through it. Hibernation is a great strategy that enables animals to conserve energy when food is scarce. During ...

Small wonder that SAD sufferers compare their condition to hibernation. When hibernating animals prepare for winter, their metabolism slows down, their sex drive wanes and they sleep in dens ...

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 ...

Only four species of bear are hibernators: American Black Bear, Asiatic Black bear, Brown bear and Polar bear. These furry mammals don’t hibernate in the true sense because their body temperature only ...

If applied in humans, who can't naturally hibernate, the discovery could mimic the natural ability of certain animals to lower their body temperature during hibernation. "The idea is to reduce the ...

There's a real variety of approaches that could induce hibernation. 18:16 I think it's very meaningful, as it shows there are multiple potential ways to induce a hibernation-like state.