Winter ticks are killing moose across New England in alarming numbers, latching onto their hosts by the thousands and draining so much blood that the animals have been described as “zombies” before ...

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 ...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The graying look of moose you might see in the field this spring isn't the result of old age. It's likely the work of blood-sucking ticks. The Coeur d'Alene office of the Idaho ...

PORTLAND, Maine — Sportsmen hoping to bag a big moose are seeing increased competition from a tiny parasite that's cutting down moose populations in New England and across parts of the northern United ...

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, ...

A bull moose in Homer has reddish-yellow hair patches, sparking ADF&G interest. Officials say it’s likely leucism or a copper deficiency, not Moose Winter Tick, and encourage public reporting of ...

CHOTEAU, Mont. — Across North America — in places as far-flung as Montana and British Columbia, New Hampshire and Minnesota — moose populations are in steep decline. And no one is sure why. Twenty ...