At first glance, North America’s two main deer species—the whitetail and the mule deer —can look very much the same. But there are important differences, and being able to spot them will not only help ...

I’ve always been a big woods whitetail hunter. I grew up in New England, where deer hunting meant tracking, still hunting, and roving through endless miles of mixed hardwoods and thick pine forests ...

Being elk and mule deer country, southwest Montana isn’t heralded for booming whitetail herds, much less midwestern-style deer drives, but several had huddled midday in a block of cottonwoods ...

It took nearly 50 years to work out the identity of a caribou-like fossil first discovered by construction workers.

If you see a deer in Colorado, it’s either the Mule deer sporting big ears, or the White-tailed deer, named for the color under the tail it holds high when running away. You’ll find deer of both ...