Raccoons and possums are often confused with one another. After all, they’re both likely to spend some time sifting through your garbage cans, and they are both known for being nocturnal. So, if you ...

After last weekend’s storm, a scrawny raccoon, a hipster skunk and a tubby opossum took a stroll through Hardberger Park West. They stopped as they neared the glow coming from the closes-at-midnight ...

ATLANTA — Georgia's Department of Natural Resources is proposing new rules that would expand the hunting season for raccoons and opossums. The agency is proposing to eliminate the trapping season on ...

Pepé Le Pew, Rascal and Pogo maybe cute characters on the screen, but skunks, raccoons and opossums are a nuisance in the backyard. They can even be dangerous. Classified as vertebrate pests by the UC ...

MONROE COUNTY, Ga. — You might have an opossum or raccoon knock over your trash can, but the critters that some call "nuisance animals" are also hurting native bird populations like wild turkeys.

The shorter faces of these city-dwelling trash bandits offer a telltale sign of domestication and line up with a leading ...

After being rescued and rehabilitated by San Diego Humane Society's Ramona Wildlife Center, more than a dozen small animals were returned to the wild, officials said Monday. Eighteen of the little ...

NEW ORLEANS — Some neighbors on the Westbank are at wit's end. They said they've had to deal with some nuisance wildlife over the years, but in the last year, it's out of control. And they have ...

Raccoons are developing pet-like features, with Scientific American citing a peer-reviewed study that found urban raccoons ...

State wildlife agents euthanized 39 opossums, seven raccoons, five gray squirrels and a mourning dove removed from a Durham woman’s home last week, according to court documents. On June 24, Sgt.