While Alaskans are busy this fall winterizing their vehicles and consuming a large variety of pumpkin spice treats, the porcupines of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, in the Alaska Panhandle, ...

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These days, it’s difficult to roll out of bed without being hit in the face with a four-headed echidna penis. We are living in the Golden Age of Internet Animalia. Hardly an hour passes without the ...

Now that the Charlotte Observer and Raleigh News & Observer have the same corporate parent (McClatchy), “my hunch is it’ll be a bit of a challenge to get the two staffs to work smoothly together,” ...

As the temperatures rise and the snow melts, we see the world around us begin to wake up. Trees and plants turn green, animals can find more food, and what is ever so exciting is that babies are born.

You’ve heard the age old joke : “Q: How do porcupines mate? A: Very carefully.” While that conjures up painful, perhaps humorous, images of carefully maneuvering sharp quills it’s probably not as ...

Other than a skunk, what animal in the woods would you least want your dog (if you own one) to meet in a close encounter? First hint: it’s a rodent. Second hint: it’s a big, prickly rodent. Yes, it’s ...

1). A Washington state girl, 11, shot a cougar that appeared to be stalking brother, according to the New York Daily News. Shelby White, 11, fired a rifle that took out an emaciated female cougar (50 ...

Most Alaskans are familiar with the bright yellow "Give A Moose a Brake" signs lining the state's roadways that keep a tally of the moose killed on that road or in that area each year. The signs act ...

Much is written about warning drivers to be on the lookout this time of year for white-tailed deer being on the move and carelessly crossing roads during “the rut,” which is their annual breeding ...

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 ...

I love winter for many reasons, perhaps the least noble of which is that it satisfies my curiosity about the everyday goings on in my neighborhood. Snow becomes a page upon which each detail in the ...