A new paper by a team of US evolutionary biologists in the journal Nature claims that whales and land mammals share a common ancestor -- a miniature deer that sprung into the water to escape being ...

Zookeepers at Whipsnade Zoo have been fawning over a tiny baby “vampire” deer they are hand-raising before its move to London Zoo next month. Four of the miniature creatures have been born at the UK’s ...

A tiny South American deer that will weigh only as much as a watermelon when fully grown is making its debut at the Queens Zoo in New York City. The southern pudu fawn weighed just 2 pounds (just ...

Muntjac numbers have increased by 20 per cent in the past two years, to 150,000 animals. The deer, which stand 18 inches at the shoulder and escaped into the wild in Bedfordshire 100 years ago, now ...