An endangered deer with vampirelike fangs was spotted for the first time in nearly 60 years, in a remote forest in northeastern Afghanistan. The fanged creature is known as the Kashmir musk deer ...

More than 60 years after its last confirmed sighting, a strange deer with vampire-like fangs still persists in the rugged forested slopes of northeast Afghanistan, according to a research team led ...

If you’re ever walking through the woods and you suddenly hear a nearby animal barking at you, there are likely several ...

With fangs that would make Dracula jealous, this bizarre deer roams the snowy forests of Siberia. We uncover why evolution armed this gentle herbivore with saber-like teeth - and how its musk once ...

The silver-backed chevrotain — a mysterious animal that's the size of a rabbit but looks like a silver-splashed deer — has been photographed in the wild for the first time.

Lost to the outside world for a generation—and feared extinct—a small deer-like species with tiny fangs has been photographed tiptoeing through a dry lowland forest in southern Vietnam. The ...

Why 'Vampire Deer' Have Fangs, While Other Hoofed Mammals Have Horns. D-brief. By Nala Rogers. Nov 15, 2018 11:30 PM May 17, 2019 10:17 PM. Indian muntjac deer have both fangs short antlers. (Credit: ...

Valerius Geist, renowned mammologist and author of Deer of the World: Their Evolution, Behavior, and Ecology, theorizes that the black patches may have been there to accentuate the white of the long ...

Members of the deer family (Cervidae) are cloven-hoofed ungulates that typically have compact torsos with long, slender legs and small tails — and most males have antlers. Insects: Facts about ...