Ryan Seacrest got annoyed at Wheel of Fortune production for a recurring sound effect on the game show. It came just before a registered nurse won $60,000.

Biologists at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock analyzed images of urban and rural raccoons and found that city-dwelling raccoons have noticeably shorter snouts, a classic marker of early ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Nov. 4 (UPI) --A couple taking a sunrise walk along the shore of the Atlantic Ocean in South Carolina ended up using a traffic cone to rescue a raccoon struggling to swim. Will DeLeo and Elizabeth ...

A plump raccoon found itself in a tight situation — literally — after trying to squeeze through a ceiling and getting stuck halfway. John Pineda of Forest City Wildlife Control in London, Ontario, was ...

It is illegal to own a raccoon as a pet in the state of Kentucky without a specific permit. Raccoons are considered dangerous to humans as they can carry diseases like rabies and roundworm. A captive ...

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