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This supernatural creature we know about is hibernated

Animals hibernate for long periods of time, a new study shows. Researchers have analyzed fossils 250 million years old and found evidence that a pig-sized mammal is called a genus. Listrosorus, Today hibernated like bears and bats. Under normal conditions it is almost impossible to detect signs of a change …

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Mammal-like Triassic creatures defeated polar winters by sleeping

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The branches of a well-built plant-eating mammal that inhabited Antarctica 250 million years ago provide the oldest known evidence that animals deployed in winter-like states to survive lean periods such as polar winters. The interpretation of an artist shows the mammalian relative Lystrosaurus during the Triassic period …

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