A 77-year-old Florida Keys woman is accused of the shooting death of an endangered Key deer and could face a year in federal prison if she’s convicted. Wendy Kilheffer of Big Pine Key shot the animal ...

Chronic wasting disease, the prion disease affecting white-tailed deer and other cervids, is spreading. With documented cases in 29 U.S. states, two Canadian provinces, three Scandinavian countries, ...

BIG PINE KEY, Fla. — A convicted felon from Big Pine Key is facing criminal charges after authorities said he lured multiple endangered Key deer into his home by feeding them — and posted photos and ...

Yoankis Hernandez Pena, 38, and Andres Leon Valdes, 45, were charged with cruelty to animals and taking, possessing, or selling a federally designated endangered species, officials said Shafiq Najib ...

BIG PINE KEY, Fla. — A “good boy” helped in the rescue of an endangered key deer in Big Pine Key. Heather Skelly was walking with her dog “Ruff” on Monday when he picked up the scent of something ...

Oh, deer — that’s not legal! Two Miami men were busted this week with an endangered Key deer in the back of their ride, deputies said. Yoankis Hernandez Pena, 38, and Andres Leon Valdes, 45, were ...

Millenia ago, when much of North America was covered in ice, a distant relative of a white-tailed deer grazed its way down a limestone ridge to the southeast edge of the continental U.S. Over time, as ...

For the first time, photographic evidence confirms the presence of musk deer in West Bengal's Neora Valley National Park, ending decades of uncertainty about the species' existence in the state. This ...

If you patrol the Florida Keys behind a badge, your beat includes wildlife that call the islands home. When an endangered Key deer — which exist only in the Lower Keys — was in crisis Thursday ...