As federal officials consider the skunk for federal protections, researchers are hoping to learn more about the long ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 4—PITTSBURG, Kan. — Two graduate students in the biology department at Pittsburg State University are searching for the ...

Back in 2023, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided that the plains spotted skunk did not warrant listing for federal protection under the Endangered Species Act. At the time, the plains spotted ...

At first whiff, you might think all skunks are the same. Not so. Meet spotted skunks, "the acrobats of the skunk world." Scientists have discovered that there are more of these species than they ...

Picture a skunk. You're probably thinking of a stocky animal, around the size of a housecat, black with white stripes, like Pepé Le Pew. That describes North America's most common skunk, the striped ...

New research using hundreds of DNA samples showed that there are seven species of these hand-standing, stink-spraying mammals. By Jason Bittel Black fur, white stripes, fanny full of foul-smelling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spotted Skunk in log with fall background© K Rensmeyer/Shutterstock.com The post The Spotted Skunk That Does Handstands Is Now ...

At first whiff, you might think all skunks are the same. Not so. Meet spotted skunks, “the acrobats of the skunk world.” Scientists have discovered that there are more of these species than they ...

Spotted skunks aren't as well-known as their striped cousins, and scientists still have a lot to learn about them, starting with how many kinds of them even exist -- over the years, the number of ...