Some creatures are like, “No thanks” to summer, too. Yep, these 8 animals that hibernate in the summer (also called aestivation) are out here dodging heatwaves better than any of us with AC.

Hot summer weather sends rattlesnakes (and a few humans) into “aestivation.” The summer version of winter hibernation, where snakes vanish from the dangerous daytime sun, sometimes for days or ...

Kyanite-bearing metapelites from the Tshenukutish terrane (Manicouagan Imbricate zone, Grenville Province) display evidence of anatexis by means of dehydration melting of micas. These rocks were ...

When faced with drought, these remarkable creatures can survive without water for up to four years by entering a state called aestivation. As their habitat dries up, the lungfish burrows into the mud ...