Floating down the Fortymile River, we heard the roar of a rapid just ahead. At the same time, we noticed the caribou, about 50 of them, clustered on a cliffside near the water. It was too late to pull ...

Reindeer and caribou are the only deer species on Earth in which females grow antlers. Instead of using antlers for combat, female caribou use them as a portable mineral storage system. Female caribou ...

It used to be that only reindeer flew Santa’s sleigh. But now, biologists at fRI Research in Alberta, Canada, wonder if Santa is recruiting caribou to help get the job done. “The timing is a little ...

Caribou crossing the frozen Porcupine River upstream from Old Crow in the Yukon Territory became trapped when the river’s ice began breaking up. A group of caribou is trapped on an ice floe on the ...

While reporting his November 2016 feature “The Last Whale Hunt for a Vanishing Alaskan Village,” writer Saki Knafo illegally shot a caribou from a dwindling herd—without a license. Here, he tells the ...

Caribou are easy animals to hunt. The Alaska Range has many different herds on both the north and south sides of the mountains all of the way from the western end of the range to where it tails off ...

Inside a long, skinny cardboard box was the answer to a mystery that had eluded northern Maine historians for nearly a ...

A wildlife recovery effort in British Columbia, Canada, has successfully increased a caribou herd from 38 individuals to 113 in less than a decade, according to a new study. Two First Nations ...