In most deer species, females do not grow antlers. However, in some cases, like with caribou, both males and females grow antlers. A hormonal imbalance might also cause female deer to develop ...

Did that big buck make it? That’s what many wildlife watchers and deer hunters want to know as winter ends. Did the buck they were watching make it through the season? Finding an antler can ...

In doing so I would take a detour through my nearby deer woods in search of some unburied treasure, namely shed antlers. Despite just over an hour of patiently walking while carefully scanning the ...

“It’s something fun to do if the weather’s nice ... before” by driving over antlers, he said. Antler sheds are often found in a deer's food source and areas where deer spend the ...

Gary Mulcahey / NMNH Some 17,000 years ago, on a wall of Lascaux cave in southwestern France, an artist made a painting of a deer with fantastically elongated antlers. To modern eyes, it looks ...