A baby porcupine is “growing like a weed” at a zoo in Utah, officials said. The “bundle of quills” was born April 27 to ...

The Fort Worth Zoo welcomed a fuzzy new arrival on May 17—a baby prehensile-tailed porcupine, or “porcupette,” born to proud ...

Located in Alberta, Canada where North American porcupines are plentiful, volunteers at the Paws Up Program are no strangers ...

Some quills may become embedded into the predator’s skin. Occasionally, loose quills fall out before it strikes, creating the illusion that they're being shot from the porcupine’s body ...

In 3000 BCE, ancient Chinese civilisation’s development of ink and brushes made from animal hair facilitated more detailed and artistic forms of writing on silk and bamboo strips, until the Greeks and ...