White-tailed deer have been hunted from the earliest migrations of people into North America, more than 15,000 years ago. The species was far from the most important food resource at that time, though ...

The COVID-19 virus is evolving in white-tailed deer at triple the rate it evolves in humans–and future changes could have serious consequences for people as well as livestock, according to a ...

People spread the virus that causes Covid-19 to wild white-tailed deer in the United States more ... Scientists fear that those viruses could then jump back into the human population and spark ...

During the Summer Olympics that begin Friday (July 26), the world’s top athletes will be running, swimming, jumping and cavorting in amazing displays of human physical abilities. Wild creatures ...

White-tailed deer, one of New York's most common species ... run as fast as 40 mph, and yes — jump that 8-foot-high fence you think is protecting your garden. According to ...

(The Conversation) – Given their abundance in American backyards, gardens and highway corridors these days, it may be surprising to learn that white-tailed deer were nearly extinct about a ...

Those coronavirus mutations, if able to jump to humans ... It isn’t known how the virus is transmitted from human to white-tailed deer, or visa versa. No major outbreaks of COVID-19 strains ...