Instagrammer @beckielouiseryan struck up a friendship with a hedgehog that has been living in her garden since June. The ...

The video game star Sonic The Hedgehog may be the most well-known hedgehog. But today, the Associated Press published a trend piece about the growing popularity of hedgehogs as pets, specifically ...

They are tiny animals with cute faces. They're covered in quills. They roll into prickly balls when they are scared. The ideal pet?Hedgehogs are steadily growing in popularity across the United States ...

Alice Gibbs is a Newsweek Senior Internet Trends & Culture Reporter based in the U.K. For the last two years she has specialized in viral trends and internet news, with a particular focus on animals, ...

Now, if that story also happens to center on animal happiness or humans being kind to their four-legged, fluffy, and furry companions in this world, it’s pretty much a recipe for heaven. Well, that is ...

The first time I saw Mr. Pokee, a coffee-mug-sized hedgehog with 1.9 million followers on Instagram, I naively thought he was somehow special. He has fluffy white belly fur and likes to scamper around ...

EVERETT — Oliver is a friendly little ball of spiky joy. The hedgehog is one of about a dozen in the living room of Krissy Brouner’s Everett home. “You just have to scoop them up,” Brouner says. “They ...

EVERETT — Oliver is a friendly little ball of spiky joy. The hedgehog is one of about a dozen in the living room of Krissy Brouner’s Everett home. “You just have to scoop them up,” Brouner says. “They ...

Salmonella is one of the most common illnesses people get from food. Undercooked ground beef is risky. And some of the biggest recalls ever involved eggs potentially contaminated by the bacteria. Now ...

. In this May 6, 2014 photo hedgehog breeder and trainer Jennifer Crespo, of Gardner, Mass., holds "Circus," a one-year-old pet hedgehog, at her home in Gardner, Mass. Hedgehogs are steadily growing ...

Salmonella is one of the most common illnesses people get from food. Undercooked ground beef is risky. And some of the biggest recalls ever involved eggs potentially contaminated by the bacteria. Now ...