Scientists have long known that birds use our trash to build their nests. Researchers have found bird nests that incorporate ...

Conservationists in Northern Ireland are trying out some new tech and a sniffer dog to help protect hedgehogs.

Researchers hope the project will also help to identify barriers preventing hedgehogs from finding food and mates in the wild ...

It all started with a Google search. Amanda Munz, 23, of Lindenhurst, LI, was Googling “weird animals” with her little brother, when she came upon the humble hedgehog. Enthralled by their tiny, ...

Many hedgehogs are killed when crossing roads. Photo-SD/Shutterstock One of these projects – the “Danish Hedgehog Project” – involved more than 400 volunteers collecting 697 dead hedgehogs from all ...

HEDGEHOGS are omnivores, which means they can eat all types of food. But they are greedy creatures and will scoff pretty much anything you put out for them, so you need to be careful and avoid certain ...

For a familiar sort of wild animal, hedgehogs are full of surprises. In the past few months, I've found a lot of things out about them. One is the popular belief that the first thing you should do if ...

A species that is 15 million years old, hedgehogs have survived all kinds of environmental changes over the years, including urbanization. Surprisingly, cities have often been found to have higher ...

These are sad and bad days for the hedgehog. Nobody knows, for sure, very much about them - how many there are, where they are, how many are needed for a viable population, how they cope with modern ...