While they won’t be pulling Santa’s sleigh anytime soon, Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) objectively ...

Leonard Vieri 10 News. For generations, many have pictured Santa’s reindeer as antlered bucks guiding his sleigh through the Christmas Eve sky. But archival evidence suggests we may have it all ...

And let’s talk power! Santa’s sleigh is powered by “eight tiny reindeer”, each one trained like an Olympic athlete. But that’s not all—Rudolph isn’t just the leader because of his ...

Many of the old Christmas traditions we celebrate today were developed to synthesize Christian doctrine with the pagan rituals ... the notion of a sleigh pulled by reindeer wouldn’t become ...

But why were they chosen to pull the sleigh rather than any other animal? It turns out that the biology of reindeer makes them ideal for the job. Here are five reasons why. Reindeer live in the ...

Every year on Christmas Eve, nine reindeer pull Santa’s sleigh through the sky so he can deliver presents to children throughout the world. Their names are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen ...

Medieval and pagan mythologies in Finland and Scandinavia lend some credibility to these countries' claims of Santa as their ...