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

Biologists have long wondered why caribou are the only deer in the world in which females—like males—have antlers. A study of ...

Female caribou chew shed antlers to get calcium and phosphorus. These minerals help them produce milk after giving birth.

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 new study of shed ...

The Western Arctic Caribou Herd, once the biggest in Alaska, is faltering, having fallen from a high of 490,000 animals in 2003 to only 152,000 as of 2023. But to the east, the Porcupine Caribou Herd ...

State game managers reduced bag limits for subsistence and nonresident hunters this week to preserve the declining Western Arctic Caribou Herd. The Alaska Board of Game concluded its meeting in ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Dec. 18, 2025 — Dr. Elie Gurarie from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) partnered with the Global Initiative on Ungulate Migration to produce new maps ...

In the remote stretches of the Tonquin Valley, a population of caribou is teetering on the brink of local extinction. But a first-of-its-kind breeding centre just south of the Jasper townsite has seen ...