A rescue dog has lost an eye after a fight with a porcupine left it with 1,500 quills in its face. Brutus, a two-year-old ...

3. Porcupines cannot throw their quills. When a porcupine feels threatened, it tenses up and attacks predators with a swat of ...

come here porcupine!" Then, not one but two crested porcupine emerged. The most striking thing wasn't the long black and white quills on their lumbering bodies - which at 30kg each were bigger ...

"We answered a lot of not-so-subtle questions about porcupine quills - they're soft at birth, before quickly hardening, so Hettie's labour was not as painful as some watching mothers were imagining." ...

The dog got herself into a prickly situation. A man found her with 50 porcupine quills stuck in her face. "This sweet girl emerged from the woods, clearly in distress," the SPCA said on social media.

The Cape Cod and South East Massachusetts Rabies Task Force is seeking information about how the raccoon ended up on the side of Smith Lane in Eastham NBC Universal, Inc. Wildlife experts are ...