That midnight rustling in the trash… the toppled bins… or the chicken coop mysteriously raided. Raccoons are clever, ...

Domesticated cats can make great low-maintenance house pets, but if you live somewhere with a stray cat problem, then you know there is a big difference between feral cats and a domesticated cat. If ...

SEATTLE — A Washington state man used a frying pan to thwart a home invasion at his Seattle home early Friday, police said. According to the Seattle Police Department, the break-in occurred at 2:40 ...

A few days in the middle of this past week it almost felt like spring. The sun was shining, it was warm, there wasn’t much wind, and birds were singing. But those few days were only a tease followed ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study found that your favorite city-dwelling trash pandas are evolving to become cuter, an early sign of domestication. There's only one problem in Texas—owning a raccoon as a pet is illegal.