Antler growth begins with a bone bud popping out on the pedicel of the animal. It’s covered with an organ called “velvet” which is full of blood vessels that facilitate the rapid formation of the ...

Sports; Outdoors; Antlers growing like weeds on heads of deer, elk, moose Fri., July 14, 2017 A bull moose photographed by a trail cam in Stevens County sports a good rack of antlers in early July ...

David Iverson holds the locked bull moose antlers he found in the North Fork of the Flathead River ... growing back sheathed by “velvet,” a network of blood vessels and tissue that nourishes ...

Every year, antlers grow on the heads of deer, elk, moose, ... The velvet is packed with blood vessels that rapidly bring blood, oxygen, and nutrients that the antlers need for growth.

Only male moose have antlers, and antler growth is regulated by testosterone, Kris Hundertmark, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, told National Geographic. 4.

Moose are the world’s largest deer species, with males capable of standing more than six feet at the shoulder and weighing up to 1,800 pounds, with antlers tipping the scales at 80 pounds.

The moose sheds its antlers in the winter to free up to 60 pounds of weight, allowing them to conserve more energy for the cold season. By springtime, antler bone starts to grow again and as males ...

Also captured last year around this time was incredible footage of a moose shedding its antlers outside of a home in Houston, Alaska. A homeowner's Ring camera caught the moment it happened.

But members of the deer family—including its biggest member, the moose—annually shed their antlers, which are not fused to their skull. Only male moose have antlers, and their growth is ...