Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Porcupette born to Maizey the porcupine in first-ever C-section birth of North American porcupine (Photo: San Diego Zoo Wildlife ...

A baby North American porcupine born in February at the Prospect Park Zoo is making its public debut along the zoo’s Discovery Trail. The young female porcupine is named Barb; a clever reference to ...

This small South American porcupine has a feature that makes it especially interesting that a prehensile tail that helps it ...

A porcupine fossil recovered in Florida was the key clue in solving a paleontological mystery. Jeff Gage/Florida Museum, CC BY-ND A rare, nearly complete fossil of an extinct North American porcupine ...