In fact, the compact antelope—with its short legs and mini-elephant nose used for air conditioning and dust filtering—looks more like a 1980s Black & Decker DustBuster than a motorcycle.

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 ...

In the Soviet era, saiga numbers were controlled through regulated hunting. Revenue from the sale of horns, skins, and canned meat was parlayed into state coffers. In the post-independence years, a ...

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 ...

ASTANA, Kazakhstan -- Kazakhstan is planning to cull up to 337,000 saiga antelope after the number of the once-endangered animal roaming the Kazakh steppe increased by tenfold in the past decade ...

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 ...

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