The NEW Zoo is mourning the loss of one of its oldest and longest-term residents. Penelope the North American porcupine was ...

A size comparison between these two animals must include weight as well as length. An adult hedgehog is much lighter than an adult porcupine. A full-grown hedgehog weighs from 5 to 56 ounces.

Luckily, as the same time, the center also found Thistle, a porcupine mama who had been hit by a car, causing her to lose her own baby. Was there a possibility that the two grieving animals might ...

Ripple, a 12-year-old capybara who arrived to the zoo in 2017, had to be euthanized on Dec. 29. The zoo said in a statement ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — The Virginia Living Museum is asking for the public’s help in naming their newest addition, a ...

These are the animals with the longest migrations. In the Yukon, Porcupine caribou travel 3,000 miles. This is the longest migration by land of any mammal on Earth. Monarch butterflies fly about ...

who studied the animals for her doctoral work at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. “The temperature would be minus-zero and I’d look up to see a porcupine in a tree eating bits of bark ...