If two signals begin to drift apart, black bears could receive mixed cues.

Researchers have long assumed that the timing of American black bear (Ursus americanus) annual hibernation mostly depends on ...

Hibernating mice rapidly lost and regrew half of the connections in their memory centers, while key connection hubs survived.

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 ...

New research from Virginia Tech scientists in the College of Natural Resources and Environment provides fresh insight into ...

Watching the same dendrites over eight days revealed that the synapses that vanished during hibernation reappeared after ...

The mountain pygmy-possum is classified as critically endangered, with fewer than 2,000 believed to be in the wild.

Artificial hibernation caused mice to lose more than half of their hippocampal synapses, yet their memories survived, ...

Hibernation is second nature to bears and other mammals…but there’s no reason humans can’t do it too. Exactly how hibernation works and why only certain animals do it remain great mysteries for ...

Imagine if you could spend a few months each winter in hibernation—you’re curled up in bed, your heart rate, body temperature, and brain activity drastically low. Then you emerge in the spring, ready ...

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 ...