Big, silent, and curious, mountain lions sometimes wander into areas where humans live. You might want to run, but here's ...

Animals play an important role in our lives, but some also carry diseases that can spread to humans, known as zoonotic ...

The seizures, made in four separate incidents, underscore how wildlife smuggling and illegal trade can be linked.

Nestled in the remote wilderness of Vinton County, where smartphones surrender to nature and navigation systems throw digital tantrums, stands a mysterious passage to the past—the infamous Moonville ...

Nestled in the dense woodlands of Vinton County, where smartphones lose signal and navigation systems surrender to confusion, lies a mysterious passageway to the past—the infamous Moonville Tunnel in ...

A couple taking a sunrise walk along the shore of the Atlantic Ocean in South Carolina ended up using a traffic cone to ...

With their prominent “bandit” masks, furry ringed tails, and stout bodies with a waddling walk, raccoons are easy to spot. These mammals are found across North America, residing in every kind of ...

A raccoon found in a backyard in Camden County earlier this month tested positive for rabies, according to officials. A Voorhees resident alerted the borough’s animal control officer on Oct. 12 after ...

Finally, some garbage we want raccoons to rip into. The city is using the trash panda’s love of human refuse to help vaccinate the woodland creatures from rabies — after cases of the deadly disease ...

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, ...