While only three UK species hide away for five months at a time, some scientists think humans could go through the same ...

The little ball of orange fur was curled up, not in a Hatter’s teapot, but under a stack of flowerpots deep in hibernation in a nest woven ...

The dormouse is famously sleepy - hibernating for five months of the year Dormice have been released at a secret woodland location in a bid to boost Bedfordshire's only population of the mammals.

Dormouse numbers have suffered a steep decline ... You may even be lucky enough to have bats hibernating in your garden. Find out more on our put up a bat box page.

Hibernation is an adaptation that allows an animal to escape cold weather and food shortages over winter. This is an example of dormancy associated with mammals. Hibernation can be either ...