As a young wildlife biologist, one of the most “sciencey” feeling things I did was age jawbones from harvested white-tailed deer. To this day, I still enjoy it as both ...

When piecing together the cultural practices of ancient humans, traditional archaeologists rely on clues from artifacts such ...

When I was a budding deer nut, most hunters I knew didn’t know how to age a deer. I remember my uncle Lawrence walking up to pretty 6-point he’d shot, ticking off the points on the rack ...

One tricky aspect of understanding how long deer live is the fact that our methods for aging deer are not exactly foolproof. The most scientific methods use teeth. When a deer is born, ...

In 1949 biologist C.W. Severinghaus developed a model for determining a deer’s age based on the molars — how many they have and how worn they are. Up to age 1½, that method is very reliable because it ...