I have only ever seen one live porcupine in the Keystone State in my lifetime, and that was in Lycoming County in the extensively forested north-central part of the state when I was much younger. So, ...

Porcupines, despite being slow-moving creatures, are being spotted in several new parts of Pennsylvania. “What we see over a relatively short period of time is that porcupines are indeed slowly ...

The decline isn’t just in Northern California: Across the West, porcupines are vanishing. Wildlife scientists are racing to find where porcupines are still living, and why they’re disappearing. Others ...

A father-son duo of Cape porcupines and an upgraded habitat for resident tortoises are ready for visitors at the Greenville Zoo. The Mary H. Huse Africa Plaza opened on Friday, steps away from the ...

The Ben Burr Trail, the mile-long forested path that slices across the South Hill, is a magical swath of urban wildness. During my walks there, I’ve seen coyotes and skunks, Cooper’s hawks and lazuli ...

Brazil’s thin-spined porcupine (Chaetomys subspinosus) is a picky eater that lives only in dense coastal habitats with well-developed canopies that allow the animals to move between trees; however, ...

A baby North American porcupine born in February at the Prospect Park Zoo is making its public debut along the zoo’s Discovery Trail. The young female porcupine is named Barb; a clever reference to ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The porcupines were walking slow and funny, more so than they usually do. Their stride concerned some residents in a South Lake Tahoe neighborhood who called a rehabilitation center ...

Heartwarming footage shows how zookeepers saved the life of a cute baby porcupine - by hand-rearing him with a bottle and giving him daily physiotherapy. Keepers at Blackpool Zoo nursed Dougie back to ...

Sarma, an Amur tiger at a Canadian zoo, recently had more than 100 quills removed from her paws after a run-in with a wild porcupine. Because the tiger received immediate medical attention, she is ...