To grow an impressive display of antlers, Alaska's moose or caribou must consume massive amounts of calcium. Since they eat mostly green plants, calcium consumption can be limited. Calcium for ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Collectors seeking caribou antlers had plenty to choose from in the 2015 Hide and Horn auction, a sale of seized animal parts by the state of Alaska.

No community is immune from theft, and that includes the remote hamlet of Bethel, Alaska. Over the last decade, thieves in Bethel have been targeting a very specific item—caribou antlers, which end up ...

Rare trophy antlers from a mountain caribou shot by an Idaho hunter in 1892 have been stolen from a cabin north of Priest River. Vandals who accessed the cabin by snowmobile in December smashed ...

We also saw caribou in Mt. McKinley (now Denali) National Park – large, majestic, gentle-looking animals with the most graceful antlers we had ever seen. A group of caribou getting ready for ...

Human activities might have shifted the movement of caribou in and near the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, according to scientists who tracked them using isotopic analysis from shed antlers. The ...

Shed female caribou antlers extend records of calving activity on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by millennia. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution , 2023; 10 DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.1059456 ...

Caribou have been returning to the same place in the Arctic for more than 3,000 years to give birth to their young. Old antlers help date caribou calving grounds to 3,000 years old Skip to main ...

A tram ride through the wildlife park Northwest Trek got me to thinking about antlers and horns, of which there were many to be seen a couple of weeks ago, sitting atop woodland caribou, Roosevelt ...