This video introduces an exotic raccoon that recently arrived at the Paul Cuffaro farm. It highlights the animal’s unusually ...

Raccoons earned their place as the state wild animal of Tennessee by supporting the state economy and thriving in changing ...

A raccoon got his head stuck in a spare tire. Luckily for the furry critter, Blue Ridge Wildlife Center was able to rescue ...

An artist rendering of Bolg amondol roaming the Kaiparowits Formation in Utah back when it would have been a subtropical floodplain, 76 million years ago. The previously unknown species was identified ...

Eight coati babies were born at a Florida zoo over the course of eight days after years without a new birth from the species. Two white-nosed coati moms, Rita and Sky, welcomed five babies and three ...

The research was based on something called the Neural Crest Domestication Syndrome (NCDS) hypothesis, which describes traits ...

Scientists discovered raccoons dunk food to activate sensitive paw receptors, helping them decide what to eat rather than ...

Sarah Benson-Amram wants to map raccoon social networks to see if the critters learn from each other like humans and other wild animals she’s studied, including hyenas. Researchers think social ...

A Maine woman was hunted down by authorities after she took her pet raccoon into a Petco to get its nails trimmed. Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife/Facebook Maine authorities euthanized ...

A dog owner on Waterford Drive near Carmel Road found the raccoon in her backyard after her dog attacked it, CMPD Animal Care and Control Public Information Specialist Melissa Knicely told The ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Hank Woolley was visiting the Natural History Museum of Utah one day when he stumbled across a jar labeled "lizard." Inside was a 76-million-year-old fossil that paleontologists had ...