Stalked for years before its existence could even be confirmed to skeptical 19th-century Europeans, then rapidly hunted, collected, or simply displaced into extinction, the wild Przewalski's horse ...

From Neanderthals to human hunter-gatherers to the mounted horde of Genghis Khan, the Eurasian Steppe has long been a crossroads of humanity. And for the last 5,000 years or so, domesticated horses ...

Horses didn’t just change how people traveled. They rewired the course of civilization. Yet scientists have always puzzled over how, exactly, wild steppe animals transformed into the rideable ...

Growing up, I was obsessed with the 2002 movie Ice Age. I watched it day in and day out, captivated by the adventures of ...

As she scraped cold dirt from the remains of an extinct bison, Pam Groves wrinkled her nose at a rotten-egg smell wafting from gristle that still clung to the animal's bones. She lifted her head to ...

For Rajasthan, it has become obvious that the desert state is not just a tourist draw but also an emerging lifeline for one of the world's most threatened eagles.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On the Mongolian steppe, there are predators, there are prey, and there are the ...

An Asiatic wild ass, or khulan, made history when it became the first of its species to cross into the eastern steppe in Mongolia in nearly seven decades. A photo released by WCS Mongolia shows the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In 2006, a group of international NGOs and the government of Kazakhstan came together to save the dwindling population of saiga antelope of the ...

Two days' drive from the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar, 100 miles from the country's border with China, the foothills of the Altai Mountains slash a jagged brown line across the scrubby southern ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...