When winter arrives, animals have two main choices: sleep more or shut down almost completely until spring. You’ve probably ...

Many insects hibernate during the winter just like mammals do, although the process for these bugs looks a little different.

Many of the prickly mammals look to these piles of trees and logs to hibernate in over winter. Also this summer has also been ...

This frog manages to outlast the winter by building up a glycerol-based "antifreeze" compound that safeguards its cells during icy weather. Its exterior still freezes over, and its heartbeat and ...

Biologically speaking, it is normal, and even critical, for nature to do more during the brighter months and to do less ...

Isle Royale National Park's remote location in Lake Superior dramatically impacts the kinds of animals you'll find there.

The other is that snakes don’t gather in general, since people tend to only come across one snake at a time. “So there was ...

Petrified Forest National Park spans around 346 square miles of semi-desert shrub steppe and highly eroded and colorful badlands in northeastern Arizona. The park is a blend of short grass prairie and ...

For the first time, brown rats have been filmed actively hunting bats, snatching some from the air and capturing others on ...

First News sat down with Chevy Motswaledi, the Mahoning County OSU extension educator for agriculture and natural resources, ...

Next time you’re tempted to raid the pantry for snacks loaded with saturated fat — especially in winter — you might want to ...

Mindy Wilt has spent nearly her entire life outdoors. From the time she was a kid, her parents had her walking in the woods near their cabin in Blacklog of the Juniata River Valley, trout fishing ...