Enjoy our cross-curricular unit on hibernating animals, designed to engage young learners in the incredible ways animals survive the winter!

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Bats modify their red blood cells to become thicker and more rigid when they hibernate – and if we can figure out how, people might one day be able to copy the process for medical treatments or ...

Animals that hibernate are hardy and resilient; they can hunker down and go months without eating or drinking, yet their muscles don't atrophy without use, and their metabolic and brain functions slow ...

Animals that hibernate are incredibly resilient. They can spend months without food or water, muscles refusing to atrophy, body temperature dropping to near freezing as their metabolism and brain ...

First-in-the-field bioinformatics analyses revealed gene regulatory elements that act differently in animals that hibernate from those that don’t. “The comprehensive bioinformatics analysis in this ...

Clusters of genes found in humans match those that hibernating animals like mice use to power down during lean times, a new study has found. Because those genes are correlated with the parts of the ...