A curious visitor to a Maine train museum that resembled a white throw pillow or perhaps a lost toupee turned out to be a rare albino porcupine. The young rodent turned up Tuesday at Seashore Trolley ...

Texas biologist Craig Hensley reports he walked past what looked like a squirrel nest in a tree. It was actually a porcupine. Craig Hensley/Texas Parks and Wildlife photo Blending in is almost ...

If it’s true that an animal’s superpower is related to its largest feature, then sweet Mocha could smell her favorite corn cob snack from across the rainforest. On a warm November afternoon at the ...

Unlike other rodents, porcupines give birth to just one offspring and that is after a long gestation period of seven months. “That’s probably because the babies are born with their quills, so their ...

When a porcupine became a farm pest, Montana jeweler Brooke Foth turned its quills into art. It took about four hours to ...