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The video thumbnail shows a small squirrel peeking out of a snowy bank, with a blue circle surrounding it.
The hairy history of Groundhog Day
How hibernating frogs survive in freezing temperatures
Examine the preparation measures taken by foraging pikas and hibernating ground squirrels
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Spotted hyena or laughing hyena (Crocuta crocuta), South Africa. (scavenger; African animal, mammal).
Weird Animals Quiz
Diversity among heteropterans. lace bug, termite bug, coreid bug, bat bug, toad bug, water strider, backswimmer, bedbug, stinkbug, water scorpion, plant bug, insects
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Why Do Some Animals Hibernate?
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The Perils of an Early Spring
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10 Ways of Looking at Cells
Endoplasmic reticulum. cell biology
6 Cell Organelles
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What Is an Executive Order?
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Why We Celebrate MLK Day
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What If the President Is Impeached?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addresses marchers during his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. August 28th 1963
Was Martin Luther King, Jr., a Republican or a Democrat?
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CC, The First Cloned Cat
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6 Small Kingdoms of the World

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Add new Web site: Digital Commons at Colby - 'Off with his head!' : Inexplicable Faith in Bulgakov's Master and Margarita. Jan 04, 2025
Media added. Nov 27, 2024
Add new Web site: AHA Journals - Hibernation in Mammals. Sep 19, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Oxford - Could humans hibernate? Jun 29, 2024
Add new Web site: Open University - OpenLearn - Hibernation in mammals. May 02, 2024
Media added. Jan 31, 2024
Add new Web site: Frontiers - Hibernation and hemostasis. Jan 08, 2024
Add new Web site: Australian Academy of Science - Not just sleep: all about hibernation. Aug 22, 2023
Add new Web site: Academia - Hibernation, a Model of Neuroprotection. Jun 16, 2023
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - The physiology of artificial hibernation. May 05, 2023
Add new Web site: Healthline - Human Hibernation Doesn’t Exist — Yet. Feb 22, 2023
Add new Web site: Live Science - Why do animals hibernate? Feb 14, 2021
Add new Web site: Wildlife Watch - Hibernation. Feb 12, 2019
Add new Web site: The National Wildlife Federation - Hibernation: The Big Sleep. Jan 09, 2017
Add new Web site: The Young People's Trust for the Environment - Hibernation. Aug 09, 2016
Add new Web site: Enchanted Learning - Hibernating Animal. Aug 09, 2016
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Animals - How Hibernation Works. Apr 06, 2009
Added new Web site: Animal Planet - Hibernation. Jun 01, 2008
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Animals - How Hibernation Works. May 29, 2008
Added new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Secrets of Hibernation. Apr 06, 2008
Article revised and updated. Nov 07, 2007
Article revised. Mar 28, 2003
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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