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 ...

That makes marsh and swamp islands perfect for finding antlers dropped during daylight hours. Oftentimes, deer choose to bed against large boulders or downed trees. The horizontal log provides them ...

you may have noticed that older deer tend to have larger and more complex antlers. You might have also heard that deer shed their antlers every year. How can both be true? At the end of mating ...

Hunting for shed deer antlers takes perseverance. It also helps to focus on areas you know deer are using. Here’s a look at ...

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 answer that question.