What's behind the saying, "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." Well, that free horse might be older than it looks and not much of a gift after all. The teeth can reveal a horse's old age. Wisconsin ...

As a young wildlife biologist, one of the most “sciencey” feeling things I did was age jawbones from harvested white-tailed deer. To this day, I still enjoy it as both a hunter and a biologist, and ...

The oldest wild whitetail ever documented lived to be 24 years old. That’s impressive—but also the exception, not the norm. In North America, wild deer usually have short, hard lives as they navigate ...

Vermont officials are asking hunters to submit incisor teeth from deer killed during rifle season. Biologists analyze the teeth to determine a deer's age, health and other population data. This data ...

“How big was your buck?” A successful hunter often gets that question. The answer is usually, “He’s an 8-point,” or 6 or 10, or whatever. That satisfies the questioner, but it doesn’t say much about ...