New research is providing insight into when torpor happens in some varieties of hummingbirds common to B.C. and how much the birds bulk up for migration.

But rather than killing them, the process known as torpor allows the tiny hummingbirds to conserve enough energy to survive between meals. New research is providing insight into when torpor ...

For birds the size of hummingbirds to survive 15-degree weather is likely nothing short of amazing to many people, but in ...

A Rufous hummingbird feeds in a backyard at an Oak Park, Ill. residence on Jan. 5, 2012. The birds, which spend some of their time in British Columbia, were the focus of a new study looking into when ...

Hummingbirds are small but remarkably tough. Some species make migrations of more than 5,590 miles a year. Their journeys are ...

Bats are fascinating creatures that exhibit unique adaptations for survival, particularly through their hibernation and torpor mechanisms. Hibernation is a state of significantly reduced metabolic ...

To make it there, hummingbirds sometimes enter a short-term hibernation of sorts, slowing their respiratory, heart and metabolic rates for several hours at a time to a point where some birds have been ...