Snails are amazing creatures with a unique survival skill—they can hibernate for up to three years. This helps them survive ...

Many people believe that during winter, most animals hibernate and that is why you do not see them. However, it may surprise ...

It’s one of a handful of labs around the world keenly focused on hibernator physiology and what examining the extreme ...

Hibernation is a remarkable survival strategy that allows various animals to endure harsh environmental conditions. When animals hibernate, they aren’t actually sleeping; instead, they enter a ...

The 21-month trip to Mars poses a litany of problems, particularly keeping people healthy. Could hibernation be an answer?

We may not even adopt this lifestyle, but some species in the animal kingdom have perfected the art and science of slumber, called ‘hibernation’. To define it in simple terms, hibernation is a ...

One of the things that sometimes makes winter a little depressing for some people is the lack of living things that we’re ...

Hibernation is voluntary, whereas torpor is involuntary, like breathing. Bears and many other animals like skunks, raccoons, ...

“Disturbing a hibernating animal can be bad for their health and with the hedgehog population in decline, we need to do all ...

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 ...

The North Coast and Cascade regions in far Northern California are home to about half of California’s black bear population. About 40% of the state's black bears live in the Sierra Nevada, according ...

Our Future Chronicles column explores an imagined history of inventions and developments yet to come. This time we fast forward to the 2050s, when people gain the ability to hibernate and use it for f ...