An adorable baby porcupine was born at a Swiss zoo where he has been exploring his surroundings with caring family members. Wakili was born at Zoo Zurich lives in the Kopje Rocks section of the park's ...

LITTLE ROCK — Hugging a porcupine? Sounds painful. And it is, if we're talking about an angry version of the animal with the long, fierce-looking needles. If it's a porcupine of the human variety - ...

Scientists reveal the existence of a new species of Colombian porcupine, Coendou vossi, that remained hidden for decades in ...

Porcupines can live a long time — some up to 18 years. Yet it’s not always the carefree lifestyle one might assume given their prickly armor. Mountain lions, coyotes, bobcats and foxes all ...

While running through Bicentennial Park in Anchorage, biologist Jessy Coltrane spotted a porcupine in a birch tree. On her runs on days following, she saw it again and again, in good weather and bad.

The black dwarf porcupine that lives in Brazilian rainforests south of the Amazon River is a species I seldom talk, write, or even think about. Then again, neither do scientists who study porcupines.

While running through Bicentennial Park in Anchorage, biologist Jessy Coltrane spotted a porcupine in a birch tree. On her runs on days following, she saw it again and again, in good weather and bad.

When you think of lions hunting, you probably imagine them feasting on a large animal like a buffalo or an antelope. But during times of drought or disease, those preferred kinds of prey may be in ...

While running through Far North Bicentennial Park in Anchorage, biologist Jessy Coltrane spotted a porcupine in a birch tree. On her runs on days following, she saw it again and again, in good weather ...

When three porcupines showed up at Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care with an array of injuries from last year’s Caldor Fire, and then another in January with a fractured clavicle, animal care director Denise ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. African lions do not usually feed on porcupines. However, in the absence of preferred prey like wildebeests, zebras and other ungulates, they can ...