For those who are passionate about deer hunting, the pursuit never really has an off season. March is an ideal time for hunters to walk through the woods to look for antlers that have just been shed ...

If you’ve ever observed deer or seen images of mature bucks, you may have noticed that older deer tend to have larger and more complex antlers. You might have also heard that deer shed their antlers ...

Here in Western New York, as soon as the snow starts to leave the hills and fields, it’s time to hunt for “drops,” or whitetail shed antlers. Back in the day “shed hunting” was reserved for a few of ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- In almost all deer, the males or bucks develop antlers for the purpose of attracting female deer or does and for defending their territory from other males. This is only ...

This is a new one to me: deer antlers contain stem cells. It seems so obvious now. Reindeer antlers fall off and grow back in record time -- four months. Makes sense they would need stem cells to do ...

Logan Haley spent most of deer season’s opening weekend sick. His father, Danny Haley, wasn’t having much fun, either. Instead of hunting, he was nursing a sick son. Logan, 15 at the time, made a ...

Antlers, the headgear of deer, moose and elk, are more useful for display than combat. But that does not stop deadly lockups from occurring. By Asher Elbein As the days of summer pass, the antlers get ...

Antlers on deer grow new each year and there are a variety of reasons why they may have a unique shape, drop tine or hole. “Antlers are pretty awesome,” Jeannine Fleegle, wildlife biologist for the ...

IN MARCH 2015, braving the bitter cold of a Yellowstone winter to report on research being carried out there on wolves, your correspondent chanced upon a wolf pack as it attacked and killed a deer of ...