Every Christmas Eve when our daughters were young they lovingly set out a plate of cookies and a glass of milk for Santa Claus. Naturally, they also left some carrots for Santa's reindeer. I'm not ...

In northern Canada, the forest floor is carpeted with reindeer lichens. They look like a moss made of tiny gray branches, but they're stranger than that: they're composite organisms, a fungus and ...

What we call reindeer moss is nothing of the kind. It's not even a plant; it's a lichen. Lichens, which account for half of the natural nitrogen... Sep 21, 2017 — What we call reindeer moss is nothing ...

There are a lot of myths about reindeer, and at least one of them is true: They live in remote areas way up north that get a lot of snow. Living in that winter wonderland can be a challenge when your ...

Reindeer from Britain’s only reindeer herd at The Cairngorms National Park in Scotland. The animals were introduced to Scotland in 1952 by Swedish Sami reindeer herder, Mikel Utsi. “A peculiar trait ...

Scientists thought that reindeer lichens (moss-looking organisms that form a major part of reindeer diets) reproduced mainly asexually by cloning themselves. But it turns out, reindeer lichens are ...

(CN) — Reindeer lichens, beloved by wild reindeer looking for an easily grazeable meal, generally find it easiest to reproduce asexually by simply cloning themselves instead of the more ...