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 ...

A sample of 682 incisor teeth collected from Maine deer (Odocoileus virginianus) during the 1968 hunting season was histologically prepared and the cemental annuli counted. The ages determined by this ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Successful deer hunters who provided a tooth from the animal to the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department can now see how old the deer was on the department’s website. The tooth ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...