This subspecies of reindeer is only found on Norway’s Svalbard archipelago and stands at roughly five-feet long and three-feet tall and about half the size of other reindeer.

Reindeer and caribou are the same thing. Reindeer have several names. Santa’s reindeer are most likely R. tarandus platyrhynchus, a subspecies in Svalbard.

Wild reindeer forage for food on the island of Spitsbergen, Svalbard archipelago, Arctic circle. Ben Birchall/AP Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs.

In the Arctic's brutal environment, the Svalbard reindeer defies extinction with remarkable adaptations, low genetic diversity, and a surprising survival strategy.

On Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, a rare animal is thriving—for now Photographs by Morgan Heim Text by Cheryl Katz Svalbard reindeer graze during an early snowfall. If temperatures rise again ...

In a stark showing of how cruel nature can be, 200 Svalbard reindeer died of starvation last year in the Arctic archipelago of the same name. The Norwegian Polar Institute, which has been hard at ...

The Svalbard reindeer have gotten fatter, not thinner, the past 28 years of climate change.

These cuties are wild, non-domesticated reindeer endemic to the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. In winter, they look adorable with thick fluffy light grey or yellow-white fur.

Despite inbreeding and limited genetic diversity, the Svalbard reindeer has managed to adapt to extreme living conditions in record time – what researchers call a genetic paradox. But can they survive ...