In northern Canada, the forest floor is carpeted with reindeer lichens. They look like a moss made of tiny gray branches, but they're stranger than that: they're composite organisms, a fungus and ...

Jan. 29 (UPI) --Like most lichen, reindeer lichen can reproduce both sexually and asexually, by sending out spores or simply cloning themselves. Previously, researchers assumed reindeer lichen, ...

Every Christmas Eve when our daughters were young they lovingly set out a plate of cookies and a glass of milk for Santa Claus. Naturally, they also left some carrots for Santa's reindeer. I'm not ...

There are a lot of myths about reindeer, and at least one of them is true: They live in remote areas way up north that get a lot of snow. Living in that winter wonderland can be a challenge when your ...

Reindeer are traditionally associated with Christmas lore — and, if you follow the latest research on reindeer, you can see that there is a good reason for this. While real-life reindeer do not fly, ...

A reindeer in Svalbard, Norway, grazes for lichens in the snow during the low light of winter. Credit: Espen Bergersen When Santa's exhausted reindeer finally set down their sleigh in the deep snow of ...

Paula DePriest was thrilled when she finally got the chance to see the species that she studies as they were being chewed up by the grazer for which they’re named. She didn’t even mind having to go ...

In northern Canada, the forest floor is carpeted with reindeer lichens. They look like a moss made of tiny gray branches, but they're stranger than that: they're composite organisms, a fungus and ...

Scientists thought that reindeer lichens (moss-looking organisms that form a major part of reindeer diets) reproduced mainly asexually by cloning themselves. But it turns out, reindeer lichens are ...

(CN) — Reindeer lichens, beloved by wild reindeer looking for an easily grazeable meal, generally find it easiest to reproduce asexually by simply cloning themselves instead of the more ...