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Hibernation is a survival strategy animals use when food is scarce, especially during winter. All animals need energy to stay alive, but when cold weather makes food hard to find, some animals slow ...

Kangaroos can hop faster without using more energy. A new study explains how posture and tendons make this possible.

Galaxy frogs are endangered by flash photography, handling, and habitat disruption. Learn how tourism is harming this fragile ...

If Santa and his sleigh traveled at 10% the speed of light, Rudolph’s nose would be blueshifted to look orange as he ...

Scientists studying thousands of rats discovered that gut bacteria are shaped by both personal genetics and the genetics of ...

High in the forest canopy, one genus of snake learned how to solve the problem of flight without wings. Here’s how, according ...

When we think about newborn animals, it’s understandable that we might think of babies that are small and helpless, entirely reliant on their parents for their every need. However, in the wild, there ...

"You want to give them shelter. Which shelter is legally required if you have an animal outside. So you make sure they stay ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists will examine the euthanized mountain lions to find any abnormalities or diseases that ...

You’ve heard of birds flying south to escape the winter, but do you know how chipmunks spend the colder months? Eastern chipmunks dig their burrows near decaying logs or stone piles, carving out a ...

Perhaps the best way to confront the swiftly changing landscape is to swallow hard, and then move forward with a fresh ...