If raccoons are wild animals, why are they so darn cute? If that’s a question you’ve ever asked yourself while looking at a picture of the furry urban dwellers with their beady eyes and tiny paws, you ...

That resourceful "trash panda" digging through your garbage may be more than just a nuisance—it could be a living example of evolution in progress. A new study suggests that raccoons living near ...

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. — Homeowners across western Washington are finding their lawns torn apart by an unlikely partnership: crows and raccoons simultaneously working to dig up invasive beetle grubs.

Nashua health officials earlier this week issued a rabies warning after a raccoon captured in the Westgate Village neighborhood tested positive for the disease. The warning is designed to alert ...

With dexterous childlike hands and cheeky “masks,” raccoons are North America’s ubiquitous backyard bandits. The critters are so comfortable in human environments, in fact, that a new study finds that ...

DERBY — A raccoon that was seized from Derby last month is alive and with a licensed wildlife rehabilitator, the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said on Wednesday afternoon.

DERBY — A woman who helps run a local pizzeria said she rescued a baby raccoon, keeping it in an outdoor habitat, before authorities seized the animal last month. In a statement Tuesday from the state ...

DERBY, Conn. (WTNH) — A raccoon was removed from a restaurant in Derby last month, according to the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Following an ...

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A dumpster-diving raccoon that got so trashed on alcohol-fermented peaches it stopped breathing was saved by bighearted Kentucky nurse Misty Combs, who brought the critter back to life with CPR, ...

Ohioans love theirs dogs and cats, but what about Buckeyes who want a pet with a ringed tail, black circles around its eyes and paws that look like hands? While Ohio cracked down on exotic animal ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Vancouver Police Department said officers rescued a baby raccoon that was being kept illegally as a pet while responding to a reported disturbance on Sunday. ‘This is ...