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

At first, the idea of using porcupine quills to patch up wounds sounds torturous. But, taking inspiration from the spiky rodent, researchers have begun to work on a new type of surgical staple that ...

Anyone unfortunate enough to encounter a porcupine's quills knows that once they go in, they are extremely difficult to remove. Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital now hope to exploit ...

Scientists are now looking for inspiration in nature to further improve patients' healing process. The future might see doctors using porcupine quills as surgical staples. To stitch up a physical ...

A police K-9 in Oregon was in pursuit of a suspect when a porcupine crossed the dog's path and pierced him with more than 200 quills, authorities said Monday. Odin, the K-9 officer, was on the trail ...

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 ...

Porcupines are famous for their pointy quills that can hurt their predators. In the wild, this spiky defense lets the porcupine stay safe, even amongst fearful predators like leopards. This video by ...

Dogs on the internet are seemingly always finding themselves in trouble one way or another. For Bentley the Boxer, however, his tussle with a porcupine left him with quills poking from the entirety of ...

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 ...

At first, the idea of using porcupine quills to patch up wounds sounds torturous. But, taking inspiration from the spiky rodent, researchers have begun to work on a new type of surgical staple that ...