Nevada designated the desert bighorn sheep as its state animal in 1973, citing its toughness and ability to survive extreme desert conditions. After dropping to about 2,000 animals in the 1960s, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A male desert bighorn Sheep is released at the Franklin Mountains State Park as part of a reintroduction of bighorns into the ...

“I think it’s collectively our responsibility to make sure the bighorns that we have now ... are here to stay,” Froylan Hernandez said Seeing sheep flying through the sky in Texas may be less rare ...

Overhead, desert bighorn sheep cross U.S. Highway 93. The sheep aren’t headed to Las Vegas, like other travelers on the highway near Hoover Dam on the Arizona-Nevada border. The bighorn are using ...

PHOENIX — Someone killed a desert bighorn sheep and left its body near Gila Bend, the Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGF) said on Friday. Information that could lead to an arrest in this case is ...

A female desert bighorn sheep stands guard over her lamb. A recent study of the sheep in the Black Ridge herd indicates the sheep are lambing earlier, in January and February, than desert bighorn ...

Thanks to steady restoration efforts by Colorado Parks and Wildlife, herds of desert bighorn sheep continue to flourish and grow in southwestern Colorado. Desert bighorn sheep (Ovis Canadensis nelsoni ...

In response to years of drought, Southern California conservationists are planning to install water stations in inland desert regions that are home to bighorn sheep. The Southern California News Group ...