To borrow from Dickens, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” My brother Jim called, saying, “Let’s go on a ...

Take goggles, for instance. The technology has certainly come a long way from when Inuit hunter-gatherers used to wear caribou antlers carved with thin slits in order to prevent snow blindness ...

Caribou have long legs, migrate across mountain ranges for hundreds of miles and the males have enormous antlers. So, in short, the difference between reindeer and caribou is reindeer are ...

Male and female caribou both grow antlers, although Bean has shed his antlers for the winter. Maeve hasn't shed her antler base yet, but she will within the next month or two.

Those iconic antlers Caribou/reindeer are approximately the size of elk and, thus, are among the largest, native deer of North America. Adults have average body lengths of 8 feet, shoulder heights ...

Reindeer and caribou are even further distinctive — females as well as males have antlers, leading some cynics to the controversial idea that Rudolph may be female.

Reindeer and caribou are even further distinctive — females as well as males have antlers, leading some cynics to the controversial idea that Rudolph may be female.

Anyone? Well first, caribou lose their antlers during the winter, and in spring they have no antlers or only small ones just starting to grow back.

The Canadian government is threatening to use emergency measures to protect three caribou herds at risk of dying out in Quebec.

A caribou with antlers shedding velvet fed on lichens on a branch as winter set in. Footage shows the herbivorous mammal munching the fluffy light green crust and plucking off a stick, as it was ...