This sculpture of two swimming reindeer is one of the oldest works of art in the British Museum. It was carved from the tip of a mammoth tusk and made during an extraordinary period of artistic ...

They live at the North Pole. They fly through the night pulling Santa’s sleigh. They play reindeer games (Texas Hold ‘Em, to be precise). Sure, most Americans have a few ideas about reindeer. But ...

The London Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest awards images that showcase the diversity and fragility of life. This year, the contest drew a record of more than 50,000 ...

Libby Purves meets actor Brian Cox and singer June Tabor. Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Swimming reindeer (made around 13,000 years ago). Sculpture carved from mammoth tusk, found at ...

Several hundred reindeer swim across Jokelfjord, on route to their winter pastures in Northern Norway, on September 14, 2023. (Photo by Olivier MORIN / AFP) A herd of reindeer with white, brown or ...

How long do reindeer live? In the wild, reindeer typically live up to 15 years of age. However, domesticated reindeer that ...

PARMA, Ohio -- The desperate cries of fawns swimming in her pool are what Parma resident Amanda Bellamy woke up to last Sunday (Aug. 30). “I don’t know how long they were in there,” said Bellamy, who ...

It`s winter and snowing. Fine flakes dust glistening drifts that blanket timberland and tundra. Lapland is twilight white. The sun sank below the horizon weeks ago, and won`t ascend until January`s ...

Illegal hunting for meat, fur, and newly grown antlers—along with the warming climate—are depleting wild reindeer on Russia’s Taymyr Peninsula. Herders gather semi-domesticated reindeer in a corral ...