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.

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 ...

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 ...

When threatened, some people make inappropriate jokes or act highly confident as defense mechanisms. Skunks, on the other hand, release a foul-smelling spray. And while most of their time is spent ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When skunks come up in conversation, most people’s minds go back to their childhood and they picture Flowers the Skunk from the movie “Bambi.” Their second thought probably has to do with the rather ...