This is the moment a juvenile red deer stag covers his antlers in Bracken in Hampshire, England on October 20. The somewhat silly display is important for the stag, as it makes him look larger and ...

Scientists studying the effects of climate change on Scotland's red deer have revealed the stags are growing heavier antlers, and breeding is taking place earlier each year. BBC environment ...

Red deer stags are the largest wild native animals in Britain and the Emperor was reckoned to be the biggest of the lot. He weighed around 24 stone and was estimated to be 12 years old. He lived ...

A set of prehistoric carvings of animals including a red deer with antlers dating back 5,000 years have been discovered in Scotland for the first time. The carvings date back to the Neolithic or ...

Climate change is thought to be behind Scotland’s red deer breeding earlier each year, scientist have said. Sign up to our Scotsman Rural News - A weekly of the Hay's Way tour of Scotland ...

A shipment of red deer antlers has started a 35-day journey from a south of Scotland farm to the Far East. It left Rupert Shaw's Gledpark Farm in Borgue on Friday for Grangemouth before travelling ...

Michelle N. Clements, Tim H. Clutton-Brock, Steve D. Albon, Josephine M. Pemberton, Loeske E. B. Kruuk, Getting the timing right: antler growth phenology and sexual selection in a wild red deer ...

We present estimates of the selection on and the heritability of a male secondary sexual weapon in a wild population: antler size in red deer. Male red deer with large antlers had increased lifetime ...

Scientists studying the effects of climate change on Scotland's red deer have revealed the stags are growing heavier antlers, and breeding is taking place earlier each year. BBC environment ...

Rupert Shaw, right, took a year to secure the necessary export licence A shipment of red deer antlers has started a 35-day journey from a south of Scotland farm to the Far East. It left Rupert ...