THE SECRET TO LONGEVITY? ASK A YELLOW-BELLIED MARMOT UCLA -LED STUDY SHOWS THAT AGING SLOWS TO A CRAWL WHEN THE ANIMALS HIBERNATE

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... Biological Laboratory in Colorado and was funded by Brazils Science Without Borders program, part of the countrys National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development, and the National Geographic Society , a Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory... ... burrows. (The age of male marmots is difficult to determine, the researchers said, because they often migrate from one area to another.) The research is part of part of a 60-year study of yellow-bellied marmots based at the nonprofit Ro