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 ...

In this truly adorable video, you can watch a cute little dormouse snoring in a zookeeper's hand: The dormouse hibernates for long periods, spending up to one third of its entire life asleep. This ...

Amid the general rejoicing over the first signs of spring, spare a thought for the humble dormouse, which is about to embark on the most dangerous period of its life. This is the surprising finding of ...

Bayreuth researchers have shown for the first time that the dormouse, which is strictly protected in Germany, not only uses woody structures as a habitat, but also reed beds. The study is published in ...

A rare forest dormouse spotted at a Galilee factory was rescued, treated, and released back into the wild by KKL-JNF. An injured forest dormouse was rescued, treated, and released back into the wild ...

A researcher has digitally pieced together fossilized fragments from five giant dormouse skulls to reconstruct the first known complete skull of the species, which was roughly the size of a cat. A PhD ...

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 University of Tartu in conjunction with Tallinn Zoo and the Lutreola conservation foundation have launched a project which aims to bring back to Estonia the garden dormouse. Known in Estonian as ...

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 ...

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