Wildlife researchers in Central Texas recently got a surprise from one of nature’s most elusive mammals: an eastern spotted skunk, captured on a remote trail camera near the Balcones Canyonlands. The ...

A study released in 2013 included a video of a Western spotted skunk handstanding and facing off with a mountain lion over a deer carcass. For reference, spotted skunks typically weigh less than 2 ...

A study released in 2013 included a video of a Western spotted skunk handstanding and facing off with a mountain lion over a deer carcass. For reference, spotted skunks typically weigh less than 2 ...

A study released in 2013 included a video of a Western spotted skunk handstanding and facing off with a mountain lion over a deer carcass. For reference, spotted skunks typically weigh less than 2 ...

When Dowler and his students studied the plains spotted skunk in the Katy Prairie, part of the Western Gulf coastal grasslands, they discovered the animals like to curl up for a siesta beneath ...

Other skunk species include the smaller and less common spotted skunk, the hog-nosed skunk in the western part of the state, and the hooded skunk of the Big Bend region.

The familiar striped skunk of North America (think of the cartoon Pepé Le Pew) has a lesser-known cousin: the spotted skunk. These polka-dotted relatives are smaller, about the size of a fat ...

A study released in 2013 included a video of a Western spotted skunk handstanding and facing off with a mountain lion over a deer carcass. For reference, spotted skunks typically weigh less than 2 ...