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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...