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 ...

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 ...

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

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. For decades, researchers have ...

Caribou, large deer that are native to the northernmost parts of the world (and sometimes called reindeer), are the only deer whose females grow antlers. In a study published today, researchers ...

Caribou mothers gnaw on their own antlers for nutrition after their long migration in the cold and dry climate of the Arctic tundra, a new study reveals. Caribous, also called reindeer, are the only ...

Spring is on the way. This is not normally when the avid hunter thinks of hunting moose. After all, snow remains on the ground, and all the drawing permits have been allocated. Instead, think of moose ...

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 ...