The world’s oldest European hedgehog has been found at a Danish volunteer project. The posthumous discovery was the result of the Danish Hedgehog Project, a citizen science initiative that asked ...

The European hedgehog – a valued and charming visitor to our gardens – is now officially in decline all over Europe. In one of today’s updates of the Red List for Europe, the International Union for ...

In a new study, 300 volunteers collected data on almost 700 European hedgehogs across Denmark for research on their lifespan and inbreeding. DamianKuzdak via Getty Images A 16-year-old hedgehog named ...

Cali (Colombia) (AFP) – The Western European hedgehog -- the prickly, nocturnal critter people love to encounter in the garden -- is in decline, mowed down by cars as its shrinking habitat forces it ...

My first memory of a hedgehog came from Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.’ In chapter eight, Alice is forced to play a game of croquet using flamingos as mallets and hedgehogs as ...

The world’s oldest scientifically-confirmed European hedgehog has been found in Denmark by a citizen science project involving hundreds of volunteers. The hedgehog lived for 16 years, 7 years longer ...

An updated Red List of Threatened Species published Monday at the UN's COP16 biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia, downgraded the hedgehog's status from "least concern" to "near threatened." The next ...