Have you ever wondered what happens to aquatic life in the winter when lakes freeze over? Rather than hibernating as mammals ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A midland painted turtle. Unlike its land cousin the box turtle, painted turtles do not have a hinged bottom shell that closes ...

Changing seasons never cease to amaze, what with their unique characteristics. Nature has a voice all its own, and as it chooses to change vernacular, it inadvertently carries all of ...

Brumation is a hibernation-like state that can occur in some reptiles when the environmental temperatures get colder and the hours of daylight decrease. While an animal’s environment would trigger ...

For hundreds of years, people believed that, come autumn, barn swallows would dive under the surface of ponds and lakes, swim to the bottom, and bury themselves in the mud for the winter. We now know ...