“Groundhogs hibernate,” said Blumstein. “So weather and climate is really important for groundhogs. The timing of their seasonal events, when they go into hibernation and when they come out ...

Groundhog Day is all about getting a weather report from a groundhog (or something else). Here's how accurate those prognosticators are according to NOAA.

Any self-preserving groundhog would refuse to come out of hibernation just to check to see whether the sun was shining. Like many other ground squirrels, groundhogs go into a deep and long sleep, ...

Punxsutawney Phil made his annual prediction in Pennsylvania on Sunday as America's most famous groundhog saw a shadow, meaning the United States is set for six more weeks of winter.

PETA is pitching an edible alternative to Punxsutawney Phil predicting the weather this upcoming Groundhog Day: A cake that ...

Groundhog Day is a centuries-old tradition with roots in pagan holidays that attempted to predict the changing of the seasons. Climate change is impacting the hibernation patterns of groundhogs ...

Get yourself to Gobbler’s Knob and prepare to meet Punxsutawney Phil – it’s time for Groundhog Day 2025. If you don’t know what any of that means, have no fear. There’s absolutely no real reason why ...

Phil lives in a climate-controlled environment where the light and temperature are consistent year-round and does not hibernate. Phil isn’t the only Groundhog that makes an annual prediction of ...

Pennsylvania’s Punxsutawney Phil may be the most famous weather-forecasting groundhog, thanks to additional publicity from ...

The answer is in his name. The groundhog is known as Punxsutawney Phil, because the town where the Groundhog Day tradition ...

Wild groundhogs often die before age 5, killed by fast cars, violent predators or invasive worms that can live in their brain. The luckiest ones hunker down to hibernate and die in their sleep.