Candy Jar Books is reimagining 'The Christmas Raccoons' as an illustrated storybook for the first time — nearly 45 years after the television special initially aired.

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.

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

In the University of Arkansas study, researchers looked at almost 20,000 images of raccoons across the United States. They wanted to assess whether raccoons living in close proximity to humans in ...

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.

In the University of Arkansas study, researchers looked at almost 20,000 images of raccoons across the United States. They ...

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Another Suffolk raccoon has tested positive for rabies, this time in Lindenhurst, marking 11 cases throughout the county this year, Suffolk health officials announced Tuesday. No humans or pets are ...