UCL (University College London) scientists have found that the closest living relative to the extinct Irish Elk (giant deer) lives on our shores. The team tested for DNA and skeletal features to prove ...

White-tailed deer have been hunted from the earliest migrations of people into North America, over 15,000 years ago. The species was far from the most important food resource at that time, though.

Researchers have determined that a unique set of antlers discovered in 1976 belonged to an extinct species of deer that existed more than 12,000 years ago. Aaron Huang Unsplash In 1976, during the ...

Recent discoveries of deer fossils are rewriting the story of cervid evolution in North America, with the unearthing of Eocoileus gentryorum at the Gray Fossil Site in Tennessee providing ...