During mating season, when male white-tailed deer want to get noticed by the opposite sex and warn off rivals, they rub their ...

To this day, confusion abounds about whether reindeer are deer. The truth is, deer and reindeer are closely related. All reindeer are deer, but not the other way around. Keep on reading to learn more ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A 10-year study of mule and black-tailed deer has found unique subspecies created by the animals' responses to climate change thousands of years ago. Gene Rhodes, Purdue ...

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, researchers investigate the introduction, transmission, and accelerated evolution of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV ...

Understanding both the role of selection in driving phenotypic change and its underlying genetic basis remain major challenges in evolutionary biology. Here, we use modern tools to revisit a classic ...

A study shows that during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, white-tailed deer in Ohio were getting infected with the virus from humans. The deer serve as a reservoir for the virus that causes COVID ...

“All I could see was that white tail bouncing away on the other side of the field.” David Pepper is reminiscing about the one that got away, the biggest white-tailed buck he ever saw, on his very ...

We usually call deer any member of the Cervidae family, of which there are more than 43 species. Reindeer are one of the species of deer, which in turn has 10 subspecies of its own. We can then say ...

“All I could see was that white tail bouncing away on the other side of the field.” David Pepper is reminiscing about the one that got away, the biggest white-tailed buck he ever saw, on his very ...