Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A close-up of hundreds of fat winter ticks on a moose Winter ticks are killing moose across New England in alarming numbers, ...

Although last year saw low numbers of winter ticks on Maine's moose population, the state's moose biologist expects much higher numbers for the coming winter season. Lee Kantar said that's because the ...

The biggest number of winter ticks that Peter J. Pekins ever found on a moose was about 100,000. But that moose calf was already dead, most likely the victim of anemia, which develops when that many ...

The arrival of European settlers, overhunting, lost habitat and disease wiped out the moose in the Lower Peninsula and later ...

A bull moose grazes in New Hampshire during the spring. (Photo by Cappi Thompson/Getty Images) Every fall, winter ticks in New England sit on shrubs or other plants waiting for a large animal to pass ...

Researchers will collar 43 more moose this month to investigate why numbers haven’t reached the 1,000-animal goal set after reintroduction.

The number of permits for Vermont’s Wildlife Management Unit E is reportedly a reduction from the 180 permits approved in the ...

A Michigan Tech student researcher, empathetic to the suffering of tick-infested moose — and with a personal ick for ticks — is working to bring the animals relief. Grace Moeggenborg, an applied ...

A type of tick is draining so much blood from Minnesota’s moose that the animals are starving to death. Winter tick populations have exploded along the North Shore as the state’s winters and springs ...

The northern New England states are home to thousands of moose, but the herd has dwindled in the last decade, in part because of the winter ticks. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP) More hunters could be out in ...

According to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, there are about 40,000 to 60,000 moose in the state. That number is down from 25 years ago, when the population was at its peak, ...