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 ...

They're smart, they never turn their nose up at a meal and they made masks fashionable long before COVID-19. They're also the last thing you want to see staring back at you when you open your garbage ...

In the relationship between humans and raccoons, the black-masked mammals have played many roles Samuel I. Zeveloff The raccoon has long held our fascination, admiration, and even our disdain. Perhaps ...

Yesterday, a scrawny raccoon captured hearts around the world as it attempted to scale the UBS tower in St. Paul, Minnesota. The tiny creature seemed to have gotten stuck a few stories above the ...

Raccoons are agile climbers and can use their fingers to climb trees. They are strong swimmers and hunt fish, frogs, and crayfish ...

This local favorite of an island is home to an unexpected wild animal. Visitors can book a tour to kayak, paddleboard, or ...

Lab rats may have won the cage fight to become model animals for research, but psychologists once looked to raccoons as the stars for studying intelligence. Black-masked raccoons served as favored ...

REDLANDS >> It’s that time of year when nesting mother raccoons seek out safe locations, such as attics and crawl spaces, to give birth. Local wildlife trapper Lowell Miller said he has seen nesting ...

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 ...