"We answered a lot of not-so-subtle questions about porcupine quills - they're soft at birth, before quickly hardening, so Hettie's labour was not as painful as some watching mothers were imagining." ...

Wildlife experts are puzzled by the discovery of a dead racoon on Cape Cod with porcupine quills. "It was very odd," said Stephanie Ellis, director of Wild Care Wildlife Rehab Center. "The racoon ...