The long-nosed saiga antelope, a rare species that roams the steppes of Kazakhstan, is having a moment. Boasting majestic ridged horns that are prized in Chinese medicine, it was once hunted to ...
Millions of years ago, giant rhinoceroses roamed the grasslands that stretched from Ukraine to Siberia. One species, ...
Other pieces portrayed wild boar, tigers and saiga antelope — which inhabited the region at the time. A drawing of a wolf was also found in one of the mounds. About 100 gold ornaments and pieces ...
Striking gold jewelry and weapons made by Sarmatian nomads have been unearthed from three burial mounds in Kazakhstan that ...
From the weird to the wonderful, here's our roundup of animals you've never heard of before (and certainly won't forget in a ...
Axolotl. Image by Fernando Losada Rodríguez, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Evolution, the cornerstone of biology ...
Earth is home to some truly bizarre creatures that seem more suited to a distant planet than our own. From deep-sea dwellers with gelatinous bodies to microscopic organisms that can survive in space, ...
One of the most significant achievements is the recovery of the Saiga antelope population from just 334,000 in 2019 to 2.8 million individuals in 2024. The efforts to recover the population have been ...