Red deer on a remote Scottish island are giving birth earlier in the year - and scientists say it's some of the first evidence ever seen that animals are evolving to cope with climate change. Previous ...

Our funding for this project was not external (it was from within Cardiff University), but it was building on material collected as part of a NERC project NE/FO21541. David Stanton and Mike Bruford do ...

Red deer on islands off the coast of Scotland may have been brought to that region from Europe 5,000 years ago by humans of that distant era. Scientifically known as Cervus elaphus, these creatures ...

CARDIFF, WALES—Evolutionary biologist David Stanton of Cardiff University and his colleagues analyzed mitochondrial DNA obtained from 74 red deer bones from archaeological sites on the Scottish ...

Utilisation of heather at three Scottish moors, by red grouse, mountain hares, sheep and red deer, was measured by collecting their faecal droppings regularly from plots on heather patches of ...