A team of molecular and physiology specialists at the Yale University School of Medicine has uncovered some of the ...

For six to eight months of each year, thirteen-lined ground squirrels don’t leave their small, subterranean dens. Beneath North America’s grasslands, they wait out the cold season hibernating, without ...

The thirteen-lined ground squirrel doesn’t drink during its winter hibernation, even though systems throughout its body are crying out for water. Madeleine Junkins and colleagues now show that the ...