Sydney Oliveira plays trivia with ciLiving contributing host, Tommy Bickham to talk about different strategies wildlife use ...

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 ...

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 up to start the long drive. You probably were a ...

Winter pushes every species in its own direction, and some creatures respond with solutions that feel almost improvised until ...

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 ...

I've been talking about raptors to school groups for decades. At one point, I ask the students what the prey animals - i.e. mice, rabbits, chipmunks - are doing in spring. Inevitably, a student will ...

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 ...

Animals that hibernate: Many animals go into hibernation when winter comes, which is one of nature's most amazing ways to stay alive. If you're wondering which animal hibernates the longest, the ...

Migration, hibernation and food storage are all responses to seasonal changes. As the days become shorter and the nights get longer, hormone changes trigger an animal's instinct to prepare for winter.

Improved organ transplantation, enhanced anorexia treatments and even the possibility of sending people deeper into space — Yale researchers believe that studying animals’ natural processes, like ...

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 ...