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You’ll notice the first flowers poking out of the ground and trees starting to bud. Also, many animals who spent the cold months in hibernation are finally waking up. Hibernation is a survival ...

And entering a hibernation-like state could work better ... which is common in animals and in which body temperature and energy use drops. Ageing is a complex phenomenon that we’re just starting ...

While bears are the poster animals for hibernation, many smaller species also rely on this survival tactic. Hedgehogs, dormice, and some species of frogs and turtles enter a deep sleep-like state.

LaFrance said a bear is kicked out of the bracket after waking from hibernation and remaining active for at least five days. "When animals, especially bears, hibernate, they can actually wake up ...

Instead of focusing on the supply of oxygen, they want to quickly reduce the amount of oxygen cells need to survive by artificially inducing a hibernation state. Animals have evolved to hibernate ...

Small wonder that SAD sufferers compare their condition to hibernation. When hibernating animals prepare for winter, their metabolism slows down, their sex drive wanes and they sleep in dens ...

These animals effectively act as landscape engineers, reorganising soils and sediments. Yet their combined global impact has never been explored, until now. Research that my colleagues and I ...

According to Andrew Ward, an ecologist from Arbtech, however, the springtime awakening of hibernating animals might be tougher on them than we realise. “Emerging from hibernation can be a ...

The US Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it will be phasing out a requirement that monoclonal antibodies and other drugs be tested on animals, saying in a news release that ...