Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Did you know that baby porcupines are called porcupettes? The tiny animals are born with soft quills that harden within hours, and ...

EMPIRE, MI -- It may tickle you to know that a group of porcupines is called a prickle. Yes, really. The porcupine is among the more than 50 mammal species who call Sleeping Bear Dunes National ...

There is a prickle of excitement at the Small Mammal House at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. Keepers discovered Beatrix, a 2-year-old prehensile-tailed porcupine, gave birth to a porcupette, ...

Did you know that baby porcupines are called porcupettes? The tiny animals are born with soft quills that harden within hours, and have a steep learning curve to go from baby to full-grown, ...