Gary Mulcahey / NMNH Some 17,000 years ago, on a wall of Lascaux cave in southwestern France, an artist made a painting of a deer with fantastically elongated antlers. To modern eyes, it looks ...

A velvet-racked buck makes the most of the growing season. Mark Raycroft Hunters are pretty good at quantifying antlers —— the best of us guessing with surprising accuracy the inches of bone on a ...

Is there any difference between horns and antlers? P. Emmett, Ellicott City, Maryland Boy, is there. Horns, says Gilbert Myers, assistant curator at the National Zoo, consist of bone encased in ...

Wildlife enthusiast Derek Keith Burgoyne filmed a bull moose dropping both antlers simultaneously while on a visit to Plaster Rock in New Brunswick, Canada Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE.