If you’ve ever observed deer or seen images of mature bucks, you may have noticed that older deer tend to have larger and more complex antlers. You might have also heard that deer shed their ...

Deer antlers are scored based on the length and number of points, the spread of the antlers, and the circumference of the main beams. The shed scored a 118 on the Virginia scale and a 114 on the ...

“I’ve been filming big mule deer for 25 years, and 100 yards from my house walks up the biggest buck I have ever seen, and drops one of his antlers,” Archibald told Storyful. “Two days later, I found ...

Minnesota’s male white-tailed deer typically lose their antlers in January and February ... looks for sheds under pine trees? “I found a shed under one once,” laughed Grant.

A shed antler is easy to spot after a prescribed burn. Dale Bowman White-tailed deer (generally only bucks are antlered) shed their antlers annually. Shed hunting is looking for the dropped antlers.

When Chunyi Li, an antler biologist at Changchun Sci-Tech University, started studying deer 40 years ago, he was struck by their ability to drop and regenerate antlers and immediately realized the ...