The tiny creature chooses to hibernate in a deflated balloon in a tree.

A dozing dormouse was found and rescued after being found fast asleep in an old helium balloon. The tiny creature was discovered by a Essex Wildlife Trust officer during a litter-picking campaign in a ...

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 second nest of dormice is set to be released in Leicestershire after a successful reintroduction in 2025. Last summer, more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 1,000th captive-bred hazel dormouse has been released into the wild in a UK-wide reintroduction scheme for these threatened mammals. Big-eyed and famously sleepy, the dormouse is a woodland and ...