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 ...

Hibernating animals are known to maintain their muscle mass during periods of hibernation, despite the lack of food during these periods. Typically, skeletal muscle undergoes severe atrophy and ...

It’s not easy being a queen — a bumblebee queen, that is. To start her colony in the spring, an expectant queen must first survive the winter by hibernating alone in the soil, where she’s vulnerable ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A black bear in Pike County looks toward a livestreaming camera on Jan. 27, 2023. The bear cam is back in the Poconos. A ...

Captive lemurs receive an abundance of food year-round, so the need to hibernate as a way to store energy when resources are scarce is not needed. Frank Vassen Via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 In ...

The secret to reducing dangerous blood clots in humans may come from an unlikely source: hibernating bears. In a new study published in Science, researchers looked at how the large mammal can lie ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A hibernating Syrian hamster that was part of the study. With the freezing temperatures that have recently pummeled parts of the ...

Males were targeted. Females were left untouched. The reason comes down to the thickness of a shell.

People stuck sitting in tight airplane seats for an entire long-haul flight are at risk of dangerous blood clots. But somehow immobile, hibernating bears are not. Now scientists know why. Bears ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Heart researchers at the University at Buffalo have received a $2.5 million five-year grant to develop new strategies to reverse a heart dysfunction called "hibernating myocardium" ...