DULUTH — Even as a reindeer team, according to legend, prepares to pull Santa's sleigh through the sky on Christmas Eve, an earthbound pair has arrived to make a permanent home at the Lake Superior ...

This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy. The Milwaukee County Zoo has announced the arrival of another new animal, this time a 9-month-old female caribou named Maeve.

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 ...

Lonesome Larry became a symbol of one federally protected species.

In a bid to boost the Mulchatna caribou herd's numbers, state biologists killed more than 100 bears and wolves last month — but the results are uncertain so far. The Mulchatna herd was once among the ...

As winters warm, white-tailed deer push ever northward in North America. A recent study in Global Change Biology suggests that climate change is driving these habitat shifts — changes that may further ...

Most deer species only have antlers in males, used for fighting and attracting mates. However, female caribou (also called reindeer) are exceptional, they grow antlers too. This rare trait has ...

I was sitting on a hill watching a muskeg flat on which several hundred scattered caribou were feeding. A quarter-mile below ...

Many animals avoid grizzly bears when possible, but their reactions depend on the species and the situation. Grizzly bears are omnivores that eat a wide variety of foods, including grasses, sedges, ...