You might want to hold Mr Snuffles extra tight tonight, because European hamsters have been added to a list of critically endangered animals. They are among the new additions to the International ...

The European hamster is now 'critically endangered' and is just one step away from extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has warned. Once abundant across Europe and ...

European hamsters are now critically endangered and could go extinct within 30 years without action to save them, conservationists have warned. The rodents, a different species from hamsters commonly ...

This hungry hamster is really prepared to work for his lunch. These super-cute snapshots show the adorable yet greedy little wild hamster furiously stuffing his chubby cheeks with all the blackberries ...

“This is a year that didn’t happen,” says Craig Hilton-Taylor. Many of us may wish this was the case. Hilton-Taylor, of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), is referring to the ...

Germany, warned five years ago by the European Union to revive its field hamster population, has brought a French pair of the rodents to get busy in a hamster-decmiated eastern state. This week, ...

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