The high peaks of the southern and central Sierra Nevada are home to a unique and endangered animal, the Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep. John Muir called them “the bravest of all the Sierra mountaineers, ...

A desert big horned ram begins a jump down a steep incline on red slickrock.© MelaniWright/Shutterstock.com It's no surprise that a state as unique and fascinating ...

A young desert bighorn ram, captured in the wild and taken to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum 16 months ago, had two main missions: Reach sexual maturity. Prove it. The ram apparently has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A male bighorn sheep is shown on the roof of a Boulder County home on Dec. 5, 2023. Wildlife officials aren't sure how the ram got ...

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Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife Police are asking for the public's help after a bighorn sheep was shot and left to rot in Eastern Washington weeks after a similar incident about 100 ...

A Colorado bighorn ram found itself in a sticky situation at Rocky Mountain National Park. The ram had sunk neck-deep in the mud at Sheep Lake when park rangers arrived on the scene. In the nick of ...

SAGUACHE, Colo. — Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) is asking the public for information that could help officials find the person who poached a Rocky Mountain bighorn ram near Saguache. Tuesday ...

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, ...