Fat Bear Week started Wednesday, that glorious autumn tradition when anyone with an internet connection can vote for the plumpest brown bear in Alaska’s Katmai National Park. Last year, more than ...

Hibernating bears can’t help us escape long plane flights or unforgiving winters — but they may help us prevent blood clots. The bears, during hibernation, prevent blood clots in their own bodies by ...

The incredible ability of bears to hibernate for months at a time has inspired some interesting lines of research around how their secrets might benefit human health, and among them is a focus on ...

Scientists at the University of Utah are looking at how bears and other mammals hibernate in an effort to find genetic clues for combating human obesity and related diseases. By finding the right ...

It’s impressive enough that bears can go for months without food or water, hibernating in a low-energy state called torpor to get through the winter. “[Brown] bears hibernate for almost half a year — ...

A video of an adorable snoring dormouse, deep in hibernation, has gone viral this week. English dormice sleep from October to April, and animals as diverse as squirrels, lemurs, and bears all ...

In March 2017, a photograph showing a man posing with a dead bear was widely circulated along with the claim that the animal was killed while it was hibernating thanks to a new law: This man posed ...

For the first time, scientists say they have been able to monitor a bear's vital signs continuously during a six-month period of hibernation. To their surprise, the researchers discovered that despite ...

Anne-Marie Hodge does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

The ground squirrel and the Syrian hamster, two rodents that hibernate in the winter, do not feel cold in the same way as non-hibernators, such as rats or mice. Researchers have discovered that ...

Squirrels here in the UK don’t truly hibernate. They gather up their food, build nests and stay cosy over the winter in a snooze-fest during which they sustain themselves on the fruits of their ...

Syrian hamsters are golden-haired rodents often kept as house pets. Cold and darkness can cause the animals to hibernate for three to four days at a time, interspersed with short periods of activity.