In Texas, about 50% of the bighorn sheep population was decimated in the last five years due to disease, biologists say.

According to the National Wildlife Foundation, two species of bighorn sheep are native to North America and are identified by their “large, curved horns.” The subspecies that was the focus of ...

California is home to two subspecies of bighorn sheep: desert bighorn and Sierra Nevada bighorn. Here's how you can spot them ...

If you're not interested in having your sheep sheared, which costs only about $25 annually here in the High Desert, there are hairless breeds that require no shearing whatsoever, but of course ...

Bighorn sheep, of which desert bighorn sheep are a subspecies, are found across the U.S.'s desert mountain ranges. According to the U.S. National Park Service, they have become highly adapted to ...

Brian F. Dolan, Water Developments and Desert Bighorn Sheep: Implications for Conservation, Wildlife Society Bulletin (1973-2006), Vol. 34, No. 3 (Oct., 2006), pp ...

Watch the moment a herd of endangered desert sheep is airlifted from a Texas mountain to a new home. The desert bighorn sheep were moved from the home where they were raised to their new range on ...

Bighorn sheep water sources to be protected Both of the lamb’s parents came to The Living Desert from the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, according to the news release. The mother, Margo, is almost ...

Assessing changes in functional connectivity in a desert bighorn sheep metapopulation after two generations. Molecular Ecology, 2018; 27 (10): 2334 DOI: 10.1111/mec.14586 ...

Excavations of architecture and associated deposits left by hunter-gatherers in the Black Desert in eastern Jordan have revealed bones from wild sheep -- a species previously not identified in ...

There are only approximately 80,000 North American bighorn sheep on the continent currently — much less than the between 150,000 and 200,000 that existed before the 1800’s.