Elk (Cervus canadensis) use their antlers during rutting, a type of antler-locked wrestling, to establish dominance over other males and gain mating rights with a harem of females. Males grow a ...

or North American elk (Cervus canadensis). The evolution of its most striking feature was driven by sexual selection; no survival advantages derived from such enormous antlers. “It was all about ...

In a Facebook post on November 15, officials wrote it was one of the "park's unicorns" – a young male elk (cervus canadensis) who had shed just one of his first set of antlers. Elks usually shed ...

The average adult male North American elk (Cervus canadensis) weighs in at about 700 pounds, in a sturdy body topped with dagger-sharp antlers. Looking at this beast, you’d guess that his bellow ...

The elk (cervus canadensis) is the second largest species within the deer family and one of the largest terrestrial mammals in its native range of North America and Central and East Asia.

A pregnant female elk (Cervus canadensis), photographed in Yellowstone National Park. The web’s biggest AI-powered search engines are featuring the widely debunked idea that white people are ...

Credit: Sarah Killingsworth She was especially taken with the tule elk (Cervus canadensis nannodes), a California subspecies named after the native sedge on which it feeds. Sandy-coated ...

The last of Pennsylvania’s original eastern elk (Cervus canadensis canadensis) was killed in 1877. The Pennsylvania Game Commission was established in 1895 and between the years 1913 and 1926 ...