Key deer are the smallest subspecies of the white-tailed deer. The biggest bucks are less than 3 feet tall at the shoulder and weigh about 75 pounds. This subspecies of deer is only found in piney and ...

BIG PINE KEY, Fla. -- The world's only Key deer, the smallest subspecies of the white-tailed deer, are found in piney and marshy wetlands bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico on the ...

Millenia ago, when much of North America was covered in ice, a distant relative of a white-tailed deer grazed its way down a limestone ridge to the southeast edge of the continental U.S. Over time, as ...