We discovered something wild about bighorn sheep - they’re built for head-on collisions, thanks to a natural shock absorber that works like bubble wrap for their brains. In this episode, we dive into ...

In 1980, a band of bighorn sheep were captured from the Sun River area along the Rocky Mountain Front and moved to a foreign landscape to the east, north of Montana’s massive Fort Peck Reservoir ...

The relocation of the lamb to Denver is especially meaningful, as the Conservation Alliance was part of the original efforts in the early 1980s to reestablish the population of bighorn sheep to ...

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- It's been several months since a herd of 77 big horn sheep was released into the Franklin Mountains State Park as part of a larger effort to reintroduce the animals in ...

And once bighorn sheep have been exposed, they can move that pathogen to other bighorn sheep. And in some herds, we lose nearly every lamb, every year and so you have a stagnant to dwindling ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) biologists are working on establishing a new Bighorn sheep herd in the mountains ...

While many of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep herds continue to struggle with disease, 2024 was a better year for the state animal. Andy Holland, a big game manager at Colorado Parks and ...

State biologists called 2023 the worst year in more than a decade for bighorn sheep. What are Coloradans doing to ... Today Ernie Etchart and his brother George Etchart run roughly 3,200 ewe-lamb ...

A young Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep is heading to a new life with the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance. The 3-month-old lamb has spent two months in the animal hospital at Omaha’s Henry Doorly ...

Now the three-month-old lamb will be going to the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance to join their herd of three bighorn sheep. "The relocation of the lamb to Denver is especially meaningful, as ...

Lambs are young sheep, typically under one year old. They are smaller and lighter than adult sheep, weighing between 25-40 kg on average. Known for their playful and energetic nature, lambs are ...

Wandering through the rolling foothills of the Wind River Range near Dubois, lives a bighorn sheep herd famous for both its abundance and scarcity. A herd that once helped reseed bighorn sheep ...