The curving, winding lines in the desert sand were a dead give away — a pack of coyotes had feasted on the body of this Peninsular bighorn ram. Though the coyotes clearly ate well off the ram, leaving ...

Few hunting experiences are as rugged, challenging and elusive as stalking a bighorn sheep. Interested Wyoming residents typically wait decades, if not even a lifetime, before drawing a ram license in ...

In the animal world, large antlers or horns are often a sign of the male’s health. Big antlers equals a strong male. This is important because for animals to survive, having the best males and females ...

Generations of bighorn sheep have enjoyed the iconic cliffside overlooking the Vail Valley, basking in the low winter sun.

Utah has both bighorn sheep and mountain goats, but only the sheep live in the southern half of the state. Two species of bighorn sheep can be found here, the California Bighorn Sheep and the Desert ...

Half of the endangered Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep appear to have died during this year's record-breaking winter, according to researchers interviewed by LAist. There are now an estimated 360 sheep ...

A herd of bighorn sheep near Garden of the Gods was relocated Tuesday by Colorado Parks and Wildlife staff — a project two years in the making. Parks and Wildlife staff dropped a 70-by-70-foot net ...

A visitor to Utah’s Zion National Park recently shared images from a trip in March, when she observed bighorn sheep from a highway turnout. Some of Kris Clifford’s images are closeups, but one ...

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 ...

Despite a bighorn sheep’s ability to live in some of the country’s harshest landscapes, they’re remarkably fragile. If pathogens that cause pneumonia enter a herd, often contracted when a bighorn ...