"Black bears don't enter true hibernation - they go into a lighter state called torpor," WRAM explained. "In torpor, a bear's ...

While people in the Northeast are the ones bearing the brunt of another snowstorm, the rest of the country is still experiencing winter weather. Parts of the Pacific Northwest and Northwest are ...

In most cultures, the winter solstice marks the symbolic death and rebirth of the Sun as it began the reversal of longer ...

When the cold and dark winter is setting in, some of us envy animals that can hibernate. This long, deep rest is an example of how nature develops clever solution to difficult problems. In this case, ...

Hibernation and torpor are two different states an animal can enter in which their heart rate, breathing and body temperature drops, according to Sara Evans Kirol, Bighorn National Forest public ...

There is more to hibernation than having a long winter’s nap, says Norfolk Wildlife Trust conservation officer .

Spring is here, and that means that sleepy animals everywhere are coming out of hibernation. Boo, a 22-year-old bear is one of those animals, and The Weather Channel shared a video on Friday, March ...

You may think you've perfected the art of the wintertime nap - especially after a big holiday meal - but the true professionals are already seriously sacked out. Tucked beneath trees and dug deep into ...

Why do some animals hibernate? -- Seinab Fahim, 10, Herndon What would you do if somebody turned off the heat from November through March -- and closed all the grocery stores in your neighborhood at ...

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 ...

The winter months bring in colder weather in Arizona and, with it, a wave of animals that migrate through the Copper State. The snow and cold temperatures in places near Flagstaff and Pinetop-Lakeside ...

When the cold and dark winter is setting in, some of us envy animals that can hibernate. This long, deep rest is an example of how nature develops clever solution to difficult problems. In this case, ...