The Air Force said "subject matters experts" are on the case and preparing to blunt the invasion by Richardson ground squirrels.

Essentially, thirteen-lined ground squirrels appear to go through a puberty-esque process every hibernation period. Shade Eleazer GRD ’28, a third-year student in Yale’s Interdepartmental Neuroscience ...

In my hands is a squirrel-sicle, or close to it. I’m standing in a walk-in fridge, bathed in red light, cradling a rigid, furry body nearly as cold as ice. The thirteen-lined ground squirrel is ...

Thirteen-lined ground squirrels hibernate for more than half of each year. Studying their extreme behavior has yielded biological insights and could lead to biomedical breakthroughs. Credit: Tyler ...

Eating omega-3 fat helps hibernating Arctic ground squirrels warm up during deep cold. Jan 14, 2021. Recommended for you. Plant genome evolution shows both episodic and gradual diploidization ...

First, some explanation: Hibernation isn’t sleep–it’s something else entirely. For weeks at a time, hibernating ground squirrels significantly decrease their metabolic rate and nearly freeze.

By studying the hibernation of a small ground squirrel, researchers from the NIH’s National Eye Institute (NEI) and collaborators in China have identified a protein that may be able to get rid ...

Beneath the surface of Eagle County are colonies of burrowing, and vocal, ground squirrels. Known as the Wyoming ground squirrels, the species are one of six kinds of ground squirrels in Colorado, ...

Like other prey animals, groundhogs feel safer in areas with tall grass and overgrown shrubs. Pruning the lower branches on shrubby plants, weeding, mowing, and trimming grass around wood piles and ...

Ground squirrels are wary and shy animals, but it is possible to observe three different species in our Northcentral Texas and Southwestern Oklahoma region. One species is more likely to be ...

During hibernation, the ground squirrel’s heart rate, respiration and body temperature decline to a mere fraction of their normal, active rates.