Despite its name, a raccoon dog is neither a raccoon nor a dog, but it does belong to the canid family, the lineage that includes dogs, wolves, and foxes.Here are some fascinating facts about the ...

It’s not as grand or complex as Sue, the Field Museum’s world-famous Tyrannosaurus Rex. But reassembling a heap of raccoon bones into a completed skeleton has been a daunting task for 2nd ...

A raccoon with a meth pipe in its mouth was found when police in Ohio conducted a traffic stop that led to the discovery of a woman's supply of drugs.

The Eoarctos vorax, a bear-raccoon-otter-like mammal that lived 32 million years ago in present-day North Dakota and had a taste for mollusks. ... The skeleton includes the baculum, ...

Bolg amondol was a raccoon-sized armored mostesaurian lizard that lived about 77 million years ago, similar to today’s Gila monsters ( Heloderma horridum ). It is named after the goblin prince from ...

Pet raccoon Chewy was found with a meth pipe in his mouth when his owner Victoria Vidal was pulled over during routine traffic stop in Springfield Township, Ohio, Monday -- which led to a big drug ...

A raccoon allegedly attacked a man in a Market Basket parking lot in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on Tuesday, officials say. Police were not able to locate the raccoon following the incident.

SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio — A Summit County woman was arrested Monday on multiple drug charges after police discovered a raccoon with a meth pipe in its mouth in the front seat of her vehicle.

A pet raccoon named Chewy was in the driver's seat of a car in central Ohio earlier this week, holding a glass meth pipe in its mouth, according to police.

Chewy the raccoon's owner, Victoria Vidal, 55, was arrested in Springfield Township, Ohio near Akron, after a traffic stop led to police discovering that she was driving with an active warrant and ...

A fossil found in Utah two decades ago now gives researchers a better understanding of what Utah's ecosystem looked like 76 million years ago.

Ultimately, the taxidermy raccoon was used as the basis for a skeleton for a complex system of animatronics… while the outside was kept as lo-fi as possible.