The now-infamous raccoon who got drunk after breaking into a Virginia ABC store in Hanover County is apparently a serial ...

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A happy family of raccoons is safe and sound after a homeowner discovered them in their wood-burning stove in Colorado this ...

The clever, adaptable urban raccoon may be evolving a shorter snout — a key physical trait of pets and other domesticated animals. The new finding describes what a biologist says could be the first ...

Americans send presidents letters or small gifts to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. for a variety of reasons. But one woman took it a step further in 1926, sending President Calvin Coolidge a raccoon for ...

Nov. 18 (UPI) --Animal rescuers in England rounded up a severely overweight raccoon spotted wandering through neighborhood gardens. The RSPCA said locals in Gwennap, Cornwall, spotted the tremendous ...

With dexterous childlike hands and cheeky “masks,” raccoons are North America’s ubiquitous backyard bandits. The critters are so comfortable in human environments, in fact, that a new study finds that ...

DERBY — A woman who helps run a local pizzeria said she rescued a baby raccoon, keeping it in an outdoor habitat, before authorities seized the animal last month. In a statement Tuesday from the state ...

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A plump raccoon found itself in a tight situation — literally — after trying to squeeze through a ceiling and getting stuck halfway. John Pineda of Forest City Wildlife Control in London, Ontario, was ...