COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The Danish air force said ... low altitude in February. The reindeer collapsed and died, leaving Nikkanoff with the prospect of only one animal pulling his sleigh at ...

The Danish Air Force said Thursday it paid about $5,000 in compensation to a part-time Santa Claus whose reindeer died of heart failure when two fighter jets roared over his farm. The animal ...

while folks use the word rensdyr to describe the same animal in Danish. In Spanish, they say reno, and theFrench say renne.

When we hear that reindeer eyes change color, most of us think of the iris—the colored part of the eye. While reindeer ...

That also applies to finding food. Reindeer are big animals that need a lot of energy, but their diet consists mostly of organisms called lichens – also known as reindeer moss. "Lichens are this ...

But Rudolph’s team won’t be the only reindeer doing something special. Back in the highest Arctic, their cousins will be performing an optical feat not observed elsewhere in the animal world ...

The prized specimen was a reindeer eye, an organ that has captivated Jeffery for decades because of the beguiling metamorphosis it undergoes each year in the animals’ Arctic home. The reindeer ...

Earlier studies have shown that reindeer eyes change from golden in the summer and a vivid blue in the winter. The light-enhancing membrane that gives many animals a shiny eye called the tapetum ...

But do you know about Utah’s reindeer, and the Utah County veterinarian who certifies them for Santa Claus? By day, Dr. Isaac Bott owns and operates Mountain West Animal Hospital in Springville ...

Their unusual story began about a hundred years ago. Now, as they head to the high north, an ambitious new chapter is being written. East of the Mackenzie River, in the Canadian Arctic, a free ...