During their pregnancy migrations, female caribou likely become depleted in key minerals, like calcium and phosphorus, yet ...

New research suggests female reindeer antlers serve as postpartum snacks, with new moms munching on them after giving birth ...

Female caribou runs near Teshekpuk Lake, Alaska. Image credits: BLM Alaska. Every year, hundreds of thousands of caribou from ...

Learn how the answer behind why female caribou have antlers lies in how shed antlers provide a nutritional lifeline to a famous migratory group of Arctic caribous.

Biologists have long wondered why caribou are the only deer in the world in which females—like males—have antlers. A study of shed antlers collected from calving grounds in the Arctic National ...

UC Associate Professor Joshua Miller holds a female caribou antler he collected from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Researchers observed that caribou routinely gnaw on shed antlers while grazing ...

A recent study found an unexpected benefit of female caribou antlers: they can function like a vitamin for deer that have just given birth ...

Caribou are the only deer species in which females also have antlers, and experts have long assumed that these antlers are ...

The study documented antlers shed by caribou in the Arctic tundra that had stayed undisturbed for decades. Researchers found that these antlers provided a ready source of minerals like calcium and ...

Biologists have long wondered why caribou are the only deer in the world in which females, like males, have antlers. A new study of shed antlers collected from calving grounds in the Arctic ...