Hamsters might be small, but they have big personalities! These furry little creatures are full of energy, curiosity, and ...

My daughter has a pet hamster. Which means I have a pet hamster. She is a cute little dwarf hamster, a great pet, relatively easy to care for, not too much poop and pee, and did I mention she’s ...

The ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, typically shorten as an organism ages. But when some fat-tail dwarf lemurs hibernate, they lengthen.

Studying how these distant primate relatives slow aging during hibernation may reveal new strategies for supporting healthy ...

Books about writers’ dogs and cats are a literary staple. Now there’s a booming subset of memoirs about writers’ ...

Consider the fat-tailed dwarf lemur of Madagascar. This hamster-sized primate can turn back the cellular aging clock and momentarily defy time during its annual hibernation season, according to ...

1. Avoid reacting negatively to the ‘gift’, because a cat is simply following their natural instincts and don’t know what they’ve done wrong. Many people believe cats bring animals home to share with ...