There's no real need for hunters to know the ages of the deer they kill. Nevertheless, many people who hunt whitetails are interested in more than just stuffing their freezers with deer meat. They ...

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 ...

BOZEMAN – How do you tell how old a deer is? Why would you want to know? For one thing, knowing a deer s age and comparing that to its physical condition tells game managers how healthy the habitat is ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. RUTLAND — Hunters who provided the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department with a tooth from their deer can now find out how old their deer was by ...