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 ...

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. Animals in the Porcupine Caribou Herd forage in 2019 on vegetation at the ledge of a hill adjacent to the Hulahula River in the ...

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.

A population decline is continuing in one of North America’s biggest caribou herds, threatening hunting opportunities for rural residents who depend on the animals for food. The Western Arctic Caribou ...

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

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has issued a call for nominations and comments in its next step toward expanding oil and ...

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 ...

Expresses the concerns of the Yukon government and the native communities over the proposed oil and gas exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Alaska and its effects on the ...

The United States has designated 640 million acres as public lands for all Americans to enjoy. Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is home to over 200,000 caribou, also known as reindeer. The ...