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, ...

Far up a giant Amazon jungle tree, a large howler monkey walked among the branches. As it stepped from branch to branch, its long tail would wrap around a convenient trunk providing extra stability.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Milwaukee County Zoo welcomed a new resident three weeks ago: a baby prehensile-tailed porcupine. The unnamed porcupette was ...

The staff at Stone Zoo last week announced the birth of a prehensile-tailed porcupine, the first birth of this species at the zoo. The baby, born on Sept. 6, to Elvis, age 4, and Comica, age 10, can ...

A team of engineers and biologists reports new progress in using computer modeling and 3D shape analysis to understand how the unique grasping tails of seahorses evolved. These prehensile tails ...

Small Mammal House keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo welcomed a baby prehensile-tailed porcupine Oct 19. The porcupette is the fourth offspring for 11-year-old mother Bess and 8-year-old ...