Britain's hazel dormice are getting lighter in spring but fatter in autumn as our climate changes, suggests new research in ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

The tiny creature has been given a bespoke home on a picturesque country estate once the pride of William Conqueror — and she seems totally contented hugging her tail as she snoozes. This wonderful ...

A tiny dormouse, sleepily curled in a ball, can fit in the palm of someone’s hand. But two million years ago, dormice existed which were as big as a cat. Incredibly, scientists have described a giant ...

NACHI-KATSUURA, Wakayama Prefecture—A rodent that was rescued from a curious house cat turned out to be the first Japanese dormouse found in this town on the Kii Peninsula. The dormouse, a ...

Moves to save the tiny woodland mammal from extinction could herald the reintroduction of larger lost species such as the wolf and sea eagle More than 100 years after they were last recorded by ...

A hibernating dormouse curls up in the palm of a hand, blissfully unaware he has just been rescued from almost certain death in sub-zero temperatures. The tiny animal can only be held for just a few ...

I'm not sure what catches my eye but I think it is the hole in a nut. Looking down, under arching hazels dripping with rain, there is a litter of split shells on the ground, freshly worked, randomly ...

A dormouse squeezed into a bird feeder and got too fat to get out. Social media users are in stitches over a greedy dormouse that squeezed into a bird feeder and feasted on seeds until it got too fat ...

A dozy dormouse could not believe its luck when it managed to squeeze inside a bird feeder for a feast - only to fall asleep and get stuck. The nocturnal creature had been "plumping up for hibernation ...