Sleeping Bear Dunes offers a seasonal buffet for porcupines, which have been observed in woodlands, fields, and forests in ...

"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." ...

Porcupines, a member of the rodent family, have small eyes and a large nose similar to those of a capybara. They also are covered in hard, sharp quills, including short, sturdy ones that can ...

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. ...

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 Staffordshire bull terrier from Alberta, Canada, was abandoned last month ...