Raccoons have long held the role of adorable bandits in the animal kingdom, and it’s not just because their black “mask” is ...

Biologists at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock analyzed images of urban and rural raccoons and found that ...

Raccoons have easy access to food in the form of human trash. It could be jump-starting physical and behavioral changes in the masked bandits, new research suggests.

If you're like us, you've seen your share of gnawed on trash can lids. You've woken only to find the little varmints have strewn your lawn with empty food wrappings. In short, if you've been visited ...

Most of us see raccoons as troublemakers that raid bins and disappear before sunrise, so the idea of keeping one at home feels strange. Even so, their behavior in cities is shifting.

Cindy Morawski loves capturing raccoons — with pastels. Since last summer, the San Antonio artist has sold several pastel portraits of the furry masked bandits that have hit her back deck for midnight ...

Cindy Morawski loves capturing raccoons — with pastels. Since last summer, the Texas artist has sold several pastel portraits of the furry masked bandits that have hit her back deck for midnight ...