Jeff TysonFor the Budgeteer News Many people hold strong opinions and beliefs about porcupines, but few have ever had an up-close experience to confirm or refute those views. At the Audubon Center of ...

One particularly spiky animal who is very fond of being petted has delighted the internet after a video was re-shared on Reddit on Tuesday. The clip of Charlie the prehensile tailed porcupine was ...

EMPIRE, MI -- It may tickle you to know that a group of porcupines is called a prickle. Yes, really. The porcupine is among the more than 50 mammal species who call Sleeping Bear Dunes National ...

The prickle – which is a group of 3 or more porcupines – has taken up residency in the newly renovated Small Worlds Exhibit at the center, located at 2389 Stratford Drive. The renovation of the ...

There have been some prickly situations on the national horizon over the last year, though not many would we tackle in this column. Here’s one we can embrace, figuratively speaking: Erethizon dorsatum ...

On a sunny spring day some 15 years ago, I was helping my friend and fellow biologist, Tim Beaulieu, with vernal pool surveys in the Dracut woods. Suddenly, what appeared to be a light sprinkle of ...