It started in late May. When geoecologist Steffen Zuther and his colleagues arrived in central Kazakhstan to monitor the calving of one herd of saigas, a critically endangered, steppe-dwelling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The unusual proboscis of the Saiga antelope helps filter dust, regulate air temperature, and protect its lungs in harsh steppe ...

Part of our weekly "In Focus" series—stepping back, looking closer. With its tubular, bulbous nose, it may look like a character from a Dr. Seuss book or the bar scene in Star Wars. But don't be ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In 2006, a group of international NGOs and the government of Kazakhstan came together to save the dwindling population of saiga antelope of the ...

On the vast steppes of Central Asia, an endangered antelope is teetering on the brink. This spring, a mysterious disease wiped out more than half of the species' remaining population on Earth, ...