60,000 antelope died in 4 days, and no one knows why. By Tia Ghose. September 4, 2015 / 2:04 PM EDT / Livescience.com It started in late May. ... Crucial steppe players.

This floppy-nosed antelope was nearly gone. 20 years later, it’s thriving. Less than a decade ago, more than half of the world’s saiga antelope were lost to a mysterious disease.

Saiga antelopes, among the most ancient living mammals, are set to be reintroduced to China 75 years after they went extinct ...

In 2006, a group of international NGOs and the government of Kazakhstan came together to save the dwindling population of saiga antelope of the enormous Golden Steppe, a grassland ecosystem three ...

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CNN. Saving saiga in Kazakhstan’s ‘Golden Steppe’ Posted: April 17, 2025 | Last updated: April 29, 2025. Saiga antelope once roamed alongside woolly mammoths – and they, too, nearly ...

The paper looked at 40 years of data collected on 40 pronghorn herds residing in the Wyoming Basin Shrub Steppe. Sometimes referred to as antelope, though they're more closely related to giraffes ...

Now it’s Przewalski’s horses’ turn. Captive breeding programs have allowed their numbers to soar from as low as 30 to 40 individuals in the mid-20th century to about 2,500 today.

The most common shrubs in this area are found in deeper soil such as the Wyoming big sagebrush, antelope bitterbrush and stiff sagebrush. Common grasses that roll along the plains of the steppe ...

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