The Far Side is famous for having a level of freedom with its comics strips that other popular comic series simply do not.

She weighs about 8 pounds, moves with the speed of a Mack truck heading up the Donner Pass and has the power to inflict some pain. She also is as impossibly cute and improbably cuddly as a wild animal ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – Introduction of their newest Animal Ambassador – Quilliam, the African Crested Porcupine. Animal Embassy was founded in 2002, by Chris Evers, and is dedicated to exotic ...

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 ...

When Emily in Canada asked for help identifying what species of porcupine she photographed here in NatGeo's Your Shot, we turned to Uldis Roze of Queens College at the City University of New York, who ...

Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting the Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine. The Mexican tree ...

Pythons asphyxiate their prey before devouring it, a method of basically choking the animal to death before serving it for supper. This ensures that the snake can enjoy a struggle-free meal. After a ...

The fat, waddling, brown-black-&-yellowish-white, bead-eyed, strong-toothed, sharp-quilled porcupine of the West (erethizon epixanthum) has been protected for years for the same reason that porcupines ...

PRINCETON (CBS) – First it was an owl, now a porcupine. Massachusetts animals appear to have an interest in soccer. The Rutland Regional Animal Control officer posted on Friday that she freed a young ...

PARKER, Colo. (CBS4)- Canello the dog is on the mend after a run-in with a porcupine. Animal control officers in Douglas County were able to catch up with the stray dog but not until he had already ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — It’s not something you see every day — a porcupine in downtown Austin. An animal control officer got a porcupine out of a tree in downtown Austin on Wednesday. (Contributed photo) But ...