Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Wildlife authorities in Tennessee were called out to rescue an unusual escaped pet: a porcupine. The ...

This little snoot is very squishable. Rico is an 8-year-old male Brazilian porcupine and resident of the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden in Ohio. He’s also a bit of a social media star ...

The prickly creatures seem to be experiencing widespread decline, but reports are largely anecdotal because government ...

knowing the country’s wildlife had been “little studied,” he told McClatchy News via email. Looking at past wildlife records, the team noticed “that some specimens of a (porcupine ...

The porcupettes, in turn, always flatten their quills in the presence of their mother. It’s most common for a porcupine to ...