However, an adult elk is taller and weighs more than an adult caribou. Caribou is also the only species in the deer family where both male and female grow antlers, whereas fem ...

A mature bull's antlers can weight up to 40 pounds. A male Rocky Mountain elk is busy eating, but later perks up when he hears the mating call of a female. GrandCanyonNPS, Rader Lane/Zenger ...

A couple in northern Colorado were recently sent fleeing into their home with their two dogs when a female elk charged at them from across the street.

New research shows that an elk's personality type is a big factor in whether or not it survives the hunting season. Data collected from GPS collars on more than 100 male and female elk in ...

If elk talked, this one would have a story to tell. This fully grown female was in a bad spot. People were seeing it around Evergreen with the toy basketball hoop and net hopelessly wrapped around ...

During the rut, or mating season, the male elk's distinctive call brings female elk and tourists alike to Estes Park, Colorado ...

Yellowstone National Park has cautioned tourists to be extra careful with elk-calving season getting underway. “Stay alert. Look around corners before exiting buildings or walking around blind ...

What makes the recent Estes Park elk attacks 'unprecedented'? Three elk stompings in eight days, all in similar locations, and all without provocation.

A woman visiting Yellowstone National Park was taken to the hospital Tuesday after the second elk attack on a human in three days. Penny Allyson Behr, 53, from Cypress, Texas, was walking between ...

A cow elk kicked and stomped a woman walking a dog in the third attack in recent days in Estes Park, Colorado officials say.