The days of trash-talking raccoons may be coming to an end. A new study published in the journal Frontiers in Zoology found that city-dwelling raccoons are showing early signs of domestication — and ...

Nashua health officials earlier this week issued a rabies warning after a raccoon captured in the Westgate Village neighborhood tested positive for the disease. The warning is designed to alert ...

Raccoons are undeniably adorable, with their bandit-like masks and those clever little hands that seem almost human. It’s no wonder some people look at them and think, "Wouldn’t that make an amazing ...

With dexterous childlike hands and cheeky “masks,” raccoons are North America’s ubiquitous backyard bandits. The critters are so comfortable in human environments, in fact, that a new study finds that ...

THIS is the bizarre moment a raccoon is spotted roaming in a stunned woman’s garden. Footage of the critter was captured by stunned Hayley Fairburn last Thursday when the raccoon was seen walking ...

Americans send presidents letters or small gifts to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. for a variety of reasons. But one woman took it a step further in 1926, sending President Calvin Coolidge a raccoon for ...

Nov. 18 (UPI) --Animal rescuers in England rounded up a severely overweight raccoon spotted wandering through neighborhood gardens. The RSPCA said locals in Gwennap, Cornwall, spotted the tremendous ...

The clever, adaptable urban raccoon may be evolving a shorter snout — a key physical trait of pets and other domesticated animals. The new finding describes what a biologist says could be the first ...

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. — Homeowners across western Washington are finding their lawns torn apart by an unlikely partnership: crows and raccoons simultaneously working to dig up invasive beetle grubs.

A growing fascination with raccoons on social media — and new scientific research suggesting the animals are becoming physically “cuter” — may be fueling their rise as unconventional household pets, ...

Cornwall residents were earlier urged to keep an eye out for a raccoon, after an animal was seen on the loose in a resident’s garden. RSPCA Cornwall shared a video taken by someone in the Gwennap area ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A study led by Arkansas researchers recently discovered that city raccoons are showing physical traits consistent with signs of domestication. The study, titled “Tracking ...