Team from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen finds 11.6 million year old evidence of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Douglas the dormouse has had a rough month. First the little guy fell from his mom's nest in Kent, England and landed just inches away from a busy road. Then he almost got stepped on by a ...

A nature lover has captured a dormouse snoring loudly on film - and it's the most adorable thing ever. The tiny mammal was filmed by Dave Williams, a member of the Surrey Dormouse Group (SDG), as it ...

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 ...

Design: Peter Nickolaus Artist's reconstruction of a spiny dormouse in the wetlands of the Hammerschmiede inset shows the upper molar ...