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.

More than 120,000 critically endangered saiga antelopes — more than one-third of the worldwide population — have died in Kazakhstan since mid-May, and the cause of the “catastrophic collapse ...

Floppy-nosed antelope has baby boom, raising hope for critically endangered species. In 2019, herd of saiga in Kazakhstan's Ustyurt Plateau produced just four calves.

Saiga antelopes, whose bulbous noses recall the tauntaun creatures in Star Wars, live in the grasslands of central Asia, from Hungary all the way across Mongolia.They’ve been around for ...

The Saiga Antelope, which is currently threatened with extinction, used to be much more flexible in its habitat and food choices in the past than previously assumed, scientists have discovered.

The saiga antelope is one of the world's strangest-looking mammals. Its bulbous, tubular nose filters out dust and warms cold air before it reaches the animal's windpipe. The bulging-eyed nomadic ...

Saiga antelope with a baby grazes next to carcasses of dead antelopes lying on a field, in the Zholoba area of the Kostanay region, Kazakhstan, May 20, 2015.

Saiga antelopes have rebounded after being hunted to the brink of extinction less than two decades ago and sustaining huge losses to disease in 2015. An estimated 1.3 million saiga now roam the ...

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 ...

In 2023, the Saiga antelope were reclassified from Critically Endangered to Near Threatened. Major farms in Saratov have written to Putin, expressing their frustration that crop losses have gone ...