When an animal hibernates, it goes into a state of sleep or minimal activity. Hibernation allows many animals to survive ...

For the first time, researchers revived fully functional mouse brain tissue from cryopreservation. The secret sauce: ...

Torpor is a temporary state of decreased physiological activity ... An unusual but effective strategy is for some reptiles and amphibians to reduce their body water content, which lowers the risk of ...

While entering into hibernation or torpor may be all well and good for the warm-blooded species that call the province home, there are plenty of reptiles and amphibians that manage to survive the ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Inducing a prolonged torpor-like state in mice slows epigenetic changes associated with aging, reducing biological age by approximately 37% over nine months ...

Others look for protective hibernation sites in attics, sheds, piles of leaves or dead wood, where they go into torpor to save ... cold spells can threaten amphibians such as frogs, toads and ...

What is commonly confused with hibernation, is brumation and torpor. “Brumation is a term used for reptiles and amphibians, and torpor is a term used for mammals, that all enter a state of reduced ...

Salamanders are amphibians that are well-adapted to survive cold weather ... Chipmunks don’t really hibernate, but rather, they enter a state of torpor in underground burrows. The burrows are lined ...

Pennsylvania's state amphibian is the eastern hellbender.Video above: Then Gov. Tom Wolf makes it official - the eastern hellbender becomes Pa. state amphibian.Also known as the Mud Devil ...

Researchers named the species Kermitus after Kermit the Frog. Scientists have discovered a new ancient amphibian species that could bridge the gap in understanding how modern-day frogs and ...