A skunk attempts to eat a live fawn that's bedded in cover and bleating in distress. A video showing a skunk preying on a bleating whitetail fawn is making the rounds on social media after a South ...

They're actually pretty adorable, and they eat mice. But you may unwittingly be inviting them to hang out in, and tear up, your yard.

If someone described to you a black and white mammal up to 2 feet long with a long tail and an unpleasant odor, you might right away assume the person is describing a striped skunk. Actually there are ...

Jeff Pennington moved to Harrison in April and started seeing skunks almost immediately. In the roughly half-year of living in the Campton section of the township, his dog has been sprayed by skunks ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Love is in the air and that means seeing more pungent pests in the neighborhood. “It’s the skunk breeding season. So, through February and March they are up and moving and ...

Skunks are mammals best known for their ability to squirt an extremely potent and disagreeable secretion at potential attackers. The Latin name for the striped skunk, Mephitis mephitis, means ''double ...

Texas skunks have been looking for love in all the wrong places. The normally shy striped critters are out and about more now that it's mating season, and biologists say many romances are ending in ...

Striped and sometimes smelly, skunks can be tough to miss when they're around. This time of year they're out and about more than usual — it's mating season. Notorious for their method of self defense, ...

I’ve been thinking about starting a pool at work. Everyone can toss in a quarter, and whoever can count the most dead skunks on the drive to the office wins. Seeing as though I have the longest drive, ...

The call piped in over the newsroom radio scanner earlier this month: a reporting party saw two skunks being walked on leashes near Canal Park. Everyone in the newsroom stopped and did an auditory ...

As students settle into the rhythm of the first fully in-person semester in nearly two years, an unlikely population has also joined them in their return to Brown’s campus: Mephitis mephitis, or the ...