Newborn badgers show hints of two dark eye-stripes in otherwise thin, silky fur, and by the time they leave the sett they ...

Male skunks frequently leave their dens during winter months while females stay sheltered until warmer temperatures arrive ...

Visiting a national park often involves scanning the horizon for charismatic animals. And most visitors arrive with a mental ...

Deer hunting season is officially over in Tennessee − but younger hunters can get one more chance this weekend.

In a final message, Jane Goodall urged us not to lose hope, even “as we destroy one ecosystem after another, as we create worse climate change and worse loss of biodiversity.” She believed our actions ...

Raccoons are one of 14 species Iowans can hunt or trap during furbearer season, which begins Saturday Nov. 1, 2025. (Camera trap photo by Bryan White/USFWS) Craig Sweet, president of Iowa Trappers ...

In the long memory of man, the fly-by-night, leather-winged bat has seldom been anything but a creature of ill repute—a companion of witches and devils and a portent of disaster. Though naturalists ...

Ask any campus-dwelling Cal Poly Humboldt student what kind of wildlife they spot at night, and nine answers out of ten will be none other than the humble striped skunk. Mephitis mephitis is a common ...

Some painters have a favorite brush, but few of them are as attached to it as Brie the Striped Skunk. With a quick dip of her fluffy tail in her palette and a brief scurry across the canvas, this ...