Today, only one species of the spiny dormouse survives, in southern India. However, the oldest spiny dormouse in evolutionary history, a member of the rodent family, was found in sediment dating back ...

British dormice have declined by a shocking 70% between 2000 and 2022, according to the latest report by the national dormouse monitoring program. But my research indicates that this decline might not ...

After the most successful breeding season in its history 29 young hazel dormice, born at Wildwood Trust in Kent, are being prepared for release in the north of England. Dormice populations have ...

Dormice need a tangle of woodland understory to move around and feed The 1,000th captive-bred hazel dormouse has been released into the wild in a UK-wide reintroduction scheme for these threatened ...

There are calls to declare Britain’s native common dormouse an endangered species, amid claims the creature is experiencing ‘a historic and catastrophic’ decline. The dormouse faces an uncertain ...

Hazel dormice have declined by 70 per cent since 2000, a wildlife charity has warned. Native dormice populations are thought to be locally extinct from 20 English counties since Victorian times, the ...

One of Britain's rarest mammals has become locally extinct from Northumberland in the last four years, according to a new study. Hazel dormice are small, native rodents with soft caramel-coloured fur, ...