Caption from LIFE. Oryx. There are few more spectacular sights than a herd of oryx striding across the grasslands, with scores of saberlike horns glistening in the sun. Caption from LIFE. Soaring ...

Some animals are so rare, they are more like myths than living, breathing organisms. Take the Upemba lechwe, for example. It’s a subspecies of the red lechwe antelope that lives in a small region of ...

A zoo in Spain has welcomed four members of a critically endangered species of African antelope that has less than 100 members left in the wild. The eastern bongo, also known as the mountain bongo ...

Scimitar horned oryx downlisted to Endangered by IUCN – marks first species in global Extinct in the Wild initiative to be downlisted Scimitar-horned oryx being released to Chad after becoming extinct ...

Thirty years after the scimitar-horned oyrx were driven to extinction, the desert antelope will return to the last-known place it existed: Chad’s Sahelian grasslands. The reintroduction—the ...