For orphaned wild animals, socialization with their own species can be essential to keeping them wild.

The plains spotted skunk does handstands to scare off predators, yet scientists have struggled for decades to even confirm ...

Marie Tosa, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University, spent two and a half years trapping and tracking the movements of western spotted ...

Four rare western spotted skunks have been released into the wild after weeks of rehabilitation at the San Diego Humane ...

At first whiff, you might think all skunks are the same. Not so. Meet spotted skunks, "the acrobats of the skunk world." Scientists have discovered that there are more of these species than they ...

A study in the Cascade Range in Oregon of a tiny, elusive skunk found the animal can cover more ground than deer and is sensitive to climate change, particularly severe winter weather. The western ...

Four rare western spotted skunks were released back into the wild after weeks of rehabilitation and socialization at the San Diego Humane Society’s Ramona Wildlife Center, officials announced ...

A group of western spotted skunks was released back into the wild by the San Diego Humane Society earlier this month, marking what the organization’s animal experts described as a “rare” and “special” ...

As a former amateur gymnast, I know a good handstand when I see one. That’s why I can say with full confidence that no creature on God’s green earth can perform a handstand with quite as much gumption ...