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 ...

In prehistoric communities across what is now northeastern Europe, decorative ornaments with animal teeth were a regular ...

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 ...

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, ...

Researchers from the University of York and University of Helsinki said the discovery showed Stone Age societies treated ...

But over the years, more and more hunters have begun sending teeth from the bears, deer, elk, pronghorn, and other mammals they’ve harvested to the lab. In fact, Matson’s has received more ...

Babirusas are believed to have diverged from their pig ancestors between 26 million and 12 million years ago after getting isolated on Sulawesi when sea levels rose at the end of the last ice age.

In "The Age of Deer," Erika Howsare writes about the relationship between humans and deer, and the questions they raise about ...

Determining the age of wild animals can involve some interesting techniques. Sometime this can be done while the animal is still alive, but often requires a more invasive approach that is best ...

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 ...