Recently I have been asked several questions concerning an animal. One question was what could be chewing on an aluminum ladder? This was easy to answer: a porcupine. The porcupine’s large incisor ...

Porcupines are easy to recognize but hard to find — so elusive, in fact, that few people have ever seen one in the wild. Emilio Tripp, a wildlife manager and citizen of the Karuk Tribe in Northern ...

“I held my face but could feel the blood running down my hand,” the woman said of her facial wound caused by her dog biting her cheek Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has ...

A 9-year-old Alabama girl suffered horrific injuries when she was viciously mauled by a dog that “grabbed” her face before sinking its teeth into her back. Delyla McCay was sitting outside her ...

Luckily the porcupine is not a particularly deadly critter. The porcupine uses her well-known defense to inflict pain or discomfort, not bring death, to keep harassers at bay or scare them off ...

A Kent County K9 dog took off on solo trek recently, and even tangled with a porcupine, before an alert resident saw the animal and it was reunited with his officer near Irons, Michigan. The Kent ...

While dogs are man’s best friends, it appears that pooches are causing a stir in San Francisco, with residents sharing their grievances. In the "r/sanfrancisco" forum on Reddit, users discussed how ...

KERRVILLE, Texas — A Kerrville animal rescue is asking for help after rescuing three injured dogs out of a “bad situation.” The three female dogs were rescued with numerous porcupine quills stuck in ...

A leopard stalks silently through the savanna, eyes fixed on what looks like easy prey: the porcupine. Slow, small and seemingly defenseless. But looks can be deceiving. When this little creature ...

Fossils offer the opportunity to look at an era of time permanently frozen in stone. Dinosaurs swallowed by mud or plants pressed into the ground over millions of years create imprints of a world long ...