In the tusks of creatures that lived before dinosaurs, paleontologists found signs of hibernation-like metabolism. By Kenneth Chang How to tell if something that died 250 million years ago hibernated ...

A team of paleontologists has discovered that a 250-million-year-old species of animal called Lystrosaurus likely relied on hibernation to survive back when Antarctica was still part of the ancient ...

原标题：研究称2.5亿年前生活在南极洲的史前动物可能依靠冬眠生存下来 来源：cnBeta.COM 一个古生物学家团队发现，一种名为Lystrosaurus的2.5亿年前的动物物种很可能在南极洲还是被称为盘古大陆的古老超级大陆的一部分时，依靠冬眠来生存。这种极端的生存策略 ...

Mass extinctions have radically influenced the history of life on Earth. Will we eventually succumb to such a catastrophe? Perhaps, but, in her new book Scatter, Adapt, and Remember, io9 editor in ...

New evidence suggests the Lystrosaurus species that roamed the Earth with the dinosaurs went into a state of hibernation to survive what is modern day Antarctica. The Lystrosaurus is a mammal-like ...

When faced with the hardship of frigid weather, some animals have a built-in survival mode: sleep. Hibernation-like behavior in the Antarctic Circle may date back 250 million years, new fossil records ...

Vertebrate paleontologists have proposed a model for the terrestrial end-Permian event in the Karoo Basin, South Africa. The scenario envisions vegetational collapse that resulted in a phased ...

At a time when Earth was going through massive environmental changes and most species were wiped out by Siberian volcanic eruptions, some animals actually managed to survive the chaos. During this ...