TOPEKA (KSNT) – Wildlife experts say the local raccoon population is changing as members of the ‘trash pandas’ show signs of becoming more comfortable with city life. Raccoons are a familiar sight ...

Public health officials warned dog owners Friday to be on alert after a dog in the San Fernando Valley was found to have raccoon roundworm eggs. Racoon roundworm is a parasite that's commonly found in ...

Kelly Lambert received funding from the NIH and NSF. When a curious raccoon broke into an Ashland, Virginia, liquor store in December 2025, sampled the stock and passed out on the bathroom floor, the ...

Raccoons living in America’s cities may be showing subtle physical changes that suggest the earliest stages of what scientists call “domestication syndrome,” but a Kansas State University wildlife ...

KEEP AN EYE ON THE SNOW AS IT MOVES IN. OFFICIALS IN HOPEDALE TRYING TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT TONIGHT, AFTER OFFICERS HAD TO EUTHANIZE A RACCOON. IT HAPPENED ON CHRISTMAS DAY IN NEW AT SIX ...

Town officials in Hopedale are defending a police response to an aggressive raccoon reported in a residential neighborhood Christmas Day, following what they described as misinformation and public ...

Dogs showed up between 15,000 and 30,000 years ago, attracted by the smell of cookfires and food scraps. When we started doing agriculture and started storing lots of grain, that attracted rodents, ...

After a raccoon broke into a Virginia liquor store and had a fun night, another creature in Wisconsin dropped in for dinner and had a small bite. A raccoon dropped onto diners at a Wisconsin ...

A wild raccoon fell through the ceiling of a restaurant at the popular Grand Geneva Resort in Wisconsin Sunday, according to authorities, with the raccoon biting at least one guest before it was ...

MALLORY ANDERSON. >> 12 NEWS FROM ANIMAL PLANET. NEW VIDEO TONIGHT OF THE RACCOON THAT FELL FROM THE CEILING INSIDE A RESTAURANT AT THE GRAND GENEVA RESORT. >> VIDEO FROM WALWORTH COUNTY SHERIFF’S ...

Deputies were called to Grand Geneva Resort after a raccoon fell through a restaurant ceiling Sunday night. A guest was bitten while trying to grab the animal. The raccoon was euthanized and sent for ...

Researchers compared thousands of images of raccoons from iNaturalist, a website where users post images of flora and fauna, based on location. They found that raccoons photographed in urban areas in ...