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

The primary difference between chipmunk and squirrel species lies in their habitat and storage strategy. Squirrels are the ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Mammals and birds are endotherms, which means they generate their own body heat through relatively high metabolic rates. That high metabolism requires ...

For a good chunk of the summer, I have been able to monitor the activity of one particular visitor to the feeding station down by my Thinking Chair a little more closely than most of the others.

With days starting to get longer and warmer, many creatures are emerging from their winter sleep, ready to find food and restart their normal activities. Photo by Twan Leenders Winter is fading away ...

The discovery of a possible hibernation hormone in the brain may unlock the mystery behind the dormant state, researchers reported in the April 7, 2006 issue of Cell. Hibernation allows animals from ...

Mammals and birds are endotherms, which means they generate their own body heat through relatively high metabolic rates. That high metabolism requires energy, which these animals garner from food. We ...