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This Intricately Decorated Deer Antler Was Used as a Battle Ax Before Being Repurposed as a Fishing Harpoon
During the sixth millennium B.C.E., carvers in present-day Sweden etched patterns into the artifact before redecorating it in ...
Archaeologists Found a 7,500-Year-Old Antler. Turns Out It’s a Sacred Weapon.
According to the study of the antler, when a Stone Age craftsman originally discovered it, they first ground down and ...
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7,500-year-old carved antler from Sweden was once used as a battle ax
A 7,500-year-old antler unearthed in Sweden had characteristic breakage patterns that suggest it was the handle for a battle ...
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What’s the Difference Between Horns and Antlers and More Questions From Our Readers
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 ...
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What Are the Keys to Managing for Bucks with Bigger Antlers?
“Antlers are luxury organs,” says Jim Heffelfinger ... like those where Heffelfinger manages mule deer and Coues deer. “We have two different weather regimes here,” he notes. “With mule deer ...
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From Antlers to Migration: How Reindeer and Whitetail Deer Differ
As such, they are two different species within the same subfamily ... Reindeer have more prominent and denser antlers than whitetail deer. However, the critical difference is in sexual dimorphism.
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Michigan zoo elk sheds antlers as wide as 5 people standing side by side
LANSING, MI – Emmett the elk lost his humongous antlers last week in the annual spring shed. Potter Park Zoo announced Thursday that its bull, Emmett, had shed his rack. The Facebook post ...