This little snoot is very squishable. Rico is an 8-year-old male Brazilian porcupine and resident of the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden in Ohio. He’s also a bit of a social media star ...

Natasha Vitek enlisted students to study minute details of the 2 million-year-old porcupine skeleton. Jeff Gage/Florida Museum, CC BY-ND While clearly related, neotropical porcupines look different.

Cooper the porcupine celebrated his 32nd birthday at ... He can be pretty stubborn in his old age,” said Stacy Johnson, curator at the museum’s Live Animal Center. "Keepers are willing to ...