There was a flutter of excitement in the car park. I had pulled in to admire the curving Kylesku Bridge, but the smartphones ...

Red and roe are native, while fallow are descendants of deer brought over from continental Europe in the 11th Century. Sika arrived in Scotland more than 100 years ago after they were introduced ...

Red deer on the Scottish isles have the same DNA as their ancient ancestors – scientists are now uncovering how they got there in the first place.

Red deer on a remote Scottish island are giving birth earlier in the year - and scientists say it's some of the first evidence ever seen that animals are evolving to cope with climate change ...

CARDIFF, WALES—Evolutionary biologist David Stanton of Cardiff University and his colleagues analyzed mitochondrial DNA obtained from 74 red deer bones from archaeological sites on the Scottish ...

Wolves were eradicated from Scotland around 250 years ago, leaving red deer with no natural predators and allowing their populations to grow across the country.

Wolves were eradicated from Scotland around 250 years ago, leaving red deer with no natural predators and allowing their populations to grow across the country. Despite ongoing management, red ...

The Scottish government has used a legal power for the first time to force the owners of a Highland estate to cull red deer on their land. The compulsory deer management control scheme could see ...

Red deer living on the Isle of Rum, on the west coast of Scotland, have been giving birth earlier and earlier since the 1980s, at a rate of about three days per decade. This change is known to be ...

Red deer calf on the Isle of Rum, Scotland. J Pemberton The team's analysis revealed that those female red deer—known as hinds—with genetic adaptations that caused them to give birth earlier ...