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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The postcranial skeleton of Lystrosaurus georgi from the lowermost Triassic of the Moscow Basin, Russia, is described for the first time. This species retains contact between the premaxillae and ...

The old phrase "live fast, die young" may not be a particularly good personal philosophy, but it could be a winner for species living in hard times — like now. Land and sea creatures are disappearing ...