In the mountain west, mule deer typically shed from January into ... which constricts blood flow to the velvet-covered antlers until, typically in early September, the antler hardens and pulls ...

Shed hunting is the pursuit for antlers cast off by members of the deer (cervidae) family, including whitetail and mule deer ... Covered in velvet, antlers start as living tissue that’s among ...

The desert mule deer is a common sight in the Trans-Pecos region of west Texas, but when wildlife biologists conducted surveys recently, they came across an extremely uncommon sight. In fact ...

Editor’s note: A version of this post was first published on March 30, 2022. The desert mule deer is a common sight in the Trans-Pecos region of west Texas, but when wildlife biologists ...