As winter arrives, certain animals adopt a unique survival ... and energy use is reduced to the bare minimum. While many animals hibernate to survive, a few stand out for how long they can stay that ...

The Antarctic tusks showed repeated signs of slowed growth and stress, which could be signals similar to those found in modern animals that hibernate ... it still had long stretches of darkness in ...

Snakes are ectothermic reptiles. This means they don’t maintain their own body temperature. Instead, their body temperature ...

Alabama might be the last place you’d expect to find grizzly bears, but there are several of them thriving there on the ...

What if the secret to surviving the harshest winters was not just strength, but a touch of feline magic? Meet the Siberian ...

The city’s relatively mild winter temperatures means there are plenty of outside activities that can also be enjoyed from ...

Will Indian River County let RSG of Vero Beach build Ridge Top neighborhood atop 600 gopher tortoise burrows in Wabasso?

Urbanization has had visible morphological effects on chipmunks and voles in the Chicago metro area. While both chipmunks and ...

As a queer person doing their best to survive the past few months of political chaos, I’ve often turned to nature — ...

Earlier this month, I wrote about two orphaned bear cubs that were rescued in Kittson County by Minnesota Department of Natural Resources conservation officer Bobby Stringer, Thief River Falls, and ...

With many different species entering torpor for a variety of reasons, scientists are looking to their sleepy secrets for ways to treat human diseases. Anthony King reports ...