Luckily the cute, big-eyed member of the raccoon family wasn't hurt during the epic ride from Bandera and was only treated for dehydration by officials at the Houston SPCA and the Wildlife Center of ...

It’s likely you’ve never seen a ringtail. The nocturnal animal might be native to California but it’s elusive, preferring rural environments, and is chronically understudied. That’s even true for the ...

This cute ringtail — don’t call it a cat — was captured inside a Kohl’s department store in Colorado. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office posted a video on Jan. 9, 2023, from which this is a ...

A department store in Colorado had an unexpected resident hiding in its shoe department for over three weeks before the rare mammal was caught and released into the wild. The Jefferson County ...

With the time change, even the animals are getting confused. San Antonio-area officials spotted a rarely seen critter, the ringtail cat, hanging out near the hustle and bustle of the highway. The ...

Texas is home to some of the creepiest, crawliest, and otherwise oddest animals on the planet. We introduce you to them in What in Tarnation?!, an occasional series. The elusive creature weighs only a ...

The latest images released by the Smithsonian's Whipple Observatory on Mount Hopkins aren't all that scientifically interesting, but they are pretty darn cute. The observatory released the images ...

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office in Golden, Colorado, shared a video on social media announcing the rescue and release of a ringtail cat that had been causing chaos at a local Kohl's Julia Moore ...