A man trying to rescue a wounded raccoon he found on the road suffered numerous bites as he held onto the animal while driving to a nature center—only to later learn the animal had rabies, staff members say.

Employees with the nature center said they wanted to address the incident for educational purposes, not “to shame or embarrass” anyone.

Have you ever found your garbage cans knocked over and trash strewn across the yard? The trash pandas have been at their midnight antics again. Trash pandas (or raccoons, if you want to be formal) are notorious nighttime mischief-makers, raiding garbage ...

I know I have raccoons in my neighborhood, but I have never seen one in my backyard. My trail camera has caught them ambling through the woods at night (they are nocturnal). My neighbor has some horrifying trail camera footage of a huge raccoon raiding ...

SOMERVILLE, Mass. (WFXT) — One Massachusetts woman had a frightening encounter with nature this past weekend. Katherine Vanbuskirk says she’s occasionally seen raccoons in her neighborhood over the past few decades but never like the one she came face ...

A Georgia man was bitten in the face and hands by a raccoon he tried to save that later tested positive for rabies this weekend, according to Chattahoochee Nature Center staff members.