Some people keep dogs in their backyards. In the Florida Keys, some residents have deer the size of a golden retriever in their yards. As sea levels rise and salt water climbs higher on the islands, ...

Deer season is here and while that may be of particular interest to deer hunters, it should also be of interest to anyone who drives a car. According to a Highway Loss Data Institute, the number of ...

Americans have transmitted COVID-19 to wild deer hundreds of times, an analysis of thousands of samples collected from the animals suggests, and people have also caught and spread mutated variants ...

Mississippi's deer population is increasing, leading to a record number of deer on the landscape. The average weight of mature bucks has decreased significantly in some areas over the past few decades ...

The misfolded proteins responsible for a fatal neurological illness in deer have a twist. The first detailed structure of an infectious prion that causes chronic wasting disease, or CWD, reveals ...

The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks continues to make efforts to manage chronic wasting disease in Mississippi's deer herd. The department is once again asking for hunters to ...

Wild Bulletin, IN DNR, Division of Fish & Wildlife: Epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) is a naturally occurring viral disease commonly seen in the Indiana deer herd. Each year, typically in late ...

As photos of so-called "Frankenstein" rabbits and squirrels with strange growths on their heads and bodies have started to pop up on social media, users are now sharing pictures taken of deer with ...

Crash investigators with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol have revealed an explanation for why a Minco school bus carrying members of the softball team left the roadway after hitting a deer on Sept. 8.