A raccoon is being tested for rabies after it reportedly attacked two people, chased a group of children and charged at police in New Jersey on Thursday. The raccoon lunged at an 82-year-old man ...

Officials in Arlington are issuing a warning to residents after three people were bitten by a rabid raccoon. Watch a report hereA 2-year-old was among the victims, attacked in her own backyard on ...

If you went to see Maleficent or Godzilla or some other fantasy film, and the antagonist, instead of being supernaturally evil, shot five kittens in front of a group of children and then later shot an ...

No one today could get away with publishing The Golden Book of Wild-Animal Pets. A popular children’s hardback throughout the 1960s, full of tips on the capture and care of snakes, skunks, hawks, ...

June 2, Wooster Ohio—the time and place that photographer Dominyk Lever may have captured on camera one of the cutest raccoon interactions ever recorded. While fishing for rainbow trout in the town's ...

Fox News aired terrifying videos of parents fighting a raccoon and a coyote attacking their children in two separate incidents. In the first incident on Friday, in Connecticut, a raccoon appears to ...

Raccoons are round, fuzzy creatures with bushy tails and a black mask of fur that covers their eye area. These animals may look like cute, cuddly bandits, but they can be quite fearsome when ...

Elvin Rodriguez’s 9- and 10-year-old sons were playing basketball at dusk on the driveway at their Tavares home when a nocturnal creature slipped through the fence. After the raccoon started chasing ...

Mary Jo DiLonardo has worked in print, online, and broadcast journalism for 25 years and covers nature, health, science, and animals. Raccoons are intelligent critters and, because they don't face ...

Raccoons are one of the most common animals in Pennsylvania. They are regularly spotted nearly everywhere in the state. However, a great deal of myth and misconception has grown around the species.