Last year, three Syrian brown bears were rescued from captivity after being kept in cages and bred for profit. At their new ...

During hibernation, brown bears spend up to six months lying almost completely still, without eating, drinking or exercising.

The incredible ability of bears to hibernate for months at a time has inspired some interesting lines of research around how their secrets might benefit human health, and among them is a focus on ...

The bear cam is back in the Poconos. A livestream from underneath a Pike County deck lets viewers observe a hibernating black bear and her cubs without getting up close. It’s the third time the ...

Hope the rescue bear is taking part in FOUR PAWS' March Napness competition ...

Hibernating animals are known to maintain their muscle mass during periods of hibernation, despite the lack of food during these periods. Typically, skeletal muscle undergoes severe atrophy and ...

Michigan’s largest bat colony is defying a disease that has killed millions of bats across the U.S. and Canada over the last 20 years.

Hibernating bears can’t help us escape long plane flights or unforgiving winters — but they may help us prevent blood clots. The bears, during hibernation, prevent blood clots in their own bodies by ...

It’s common knowledge that animals who hibernate such as bears and ground squirrels, reduce their energy demands and use their fat reserves to meet their energy needs until spring. Yet, it has been a ...

It’s not easy being a queen — a bumblebee queen, that is. To start her colony in the spring, an expectant queen must first survive the winter by hibernating alone in the soil, where she’s vulnerable ...

Getting humans safely to a place like Mars is going to pose all kinds of scientific challenges, and a particularly pressing one centers on the rather important issue of human health. Astronauts ...

People stuck sitting in tight airplane seats for an entire long-haul flight are at risk of dangerous blood clots. But somehow immobile, hibernating bears are not. Now scientists know why. Bears ...