An apex predator, doting mother, and winning survivalist — bears are known for it all. Eight species of this animal exist throughout the world, all of which are found in North and South America, Asia, ...

We humans have to power our way through the winter, bundling up and worrying about frostbite on the trail. But bears? They just snooze their way through it. Bears have some tried-and-true habits to ...

Animals such as grizzly bears and Arctic ground squirrels have evolved the ability to hibernate as a way to survive winter months of extreme cold. During hibernation, their core body temperatures drop ...

The molecular mechanisms underlying hibernation have been partially revealed thanks to skeletal muscle samples and the Mant-ATP chase assay. Scientists have long studied hibernation; however, the ...

We are approaching April and black bears will be waking up from hibernation. Females may have as many as four cubs or yearlings that come out of the den with them. Up to five bears in that one den, ...

Maybe you can relate: Winter isn't always the ideal time to be an animal. The sun is low, temperatures flirt with freezing (or worse) and fresh food is scarce. Some of us migrate in search of brighter ...

Until very recently, everything we knew about bear hibernation could be fairly well captured in a single sentence: We’re pretty sure they do it. They disappear into dens for months at a time, they ...

Imagine you’re an astronaut taking a trip into outer space. Only it’s not a short jaunt to the Moon. Instead, your trip will last 120 years. To get there you’d need to drastically reduce your body’s ...

Every spring, as days in the north stretch longer and melting snow trickles into streams, drowsy animals ranging from grizzlies to ground squirrels start to rally from hibernation. It’s tempting to ...