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

The Arctic is a brutal desert of nutrients. For a nursing mother caribou, the stress is threefold: she is recovering from a ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Porcupine caribou herd on a patch of snow photographed from an airplane during an aerial survey last year. Biologists take ...

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

Dec. 19—One of the largest caribou herds in Alaska is shrinking, prompting hunters and conservationists to consider recommending hunting restrictions. The Western Arctic Caribou Herd population is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Animals in the Porcupine Caribou Herd forage in 2019 on vegetation at the ledge of a hill adjacent to the Hulahula River in the ...

Conservation groups sued Monday over a state program in Alaska that authorizes killing brown bears and black bears as a way to increase the size of a once-significant caribou herd in the southwest ...