“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, ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

"These groundhogs — along with a tortoise, whose emergence from his winter brumation (hibernation for reptiles) foretells the coming of Spring, and a Prairie dog statue, whose shadow at sunrise ...

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.