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The annual antler cycle. At the end of mating season, usually in late winter, male deer, or bucks, shed their antlers thanks to an abscission layer that forms between the antlers and the skull ...

A common misconception is that age is indicated by antler size, which is inaccurate. On the other hand, antlers are a good indicator of an animal's health. Antlers reach their largest size at ...

In the 1980s, shortly before I was born, my father killed a male white-tailed deer in the woods of Oklahoma, harvested his flesh, and mounted his head. Years later, my brothers regaled me with the ...

Deer grow antlers, not horns. Antlers are true bone and mainly made of calcium, and are shed each winter before regrowing each spring and summer. Antler growth on whitetail bucks originates from a ...

Kreed Keele, a resident of Price, successfully discovered the $10,000 mule deer shed antler as part of the Hidden Shed Riddle challenge. According to a news release, the hidden antler was located ...

Whether you’re a deer hunter or not, everyone appreciates antlers. I mean how could you not be fascinated with bony spikes growing from an animal’s head? At this point (pun ...

Deer and elk have antlers which, unlike horns, are shed by bucks every winter and deer regrow a new set starting in the spring. Daniel Bevevino, 41, of Russell, Warren County, and Daymian Shoop ...

Deer antlers are among the fastest-growing appendages in the Animal Kingdom. Growing as fast as 3/4 of an inch per day during the peak spring growing cycle, cervid headgear can develop fully in ...