The current world-record archery bighorn measures 209 1/8 inches and was taken in Pennington County, South Dakota, in 2018.

Bighorn males, called rams, are famous for their large, curled horns. These impressive growths ... rugged mountain terrain. Wild sheep live in social groups, but rams and ewes typically meet ...

Missteps occurred too: A herd transplanted near Van Horn was nearly wiped out by mountain lions, and bighorn have taken a hit from pneumonia spread by a rival sheep, the hardy and bearded aoudad, ...

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s 2024 bighorn sheep survey, completed by recounting lambs in March, revealed a minimum of 350 bighorn sheep in the grasslands of western North Dakota, down 4 ...

In December, the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks asked the commission to downgrade the quota range for tags in ...

The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission will hold an emergency public meeting Monday, March 31 to consider closing bighorn sheep hunting for 2025 in hunting district 622.The commission meeting will ...

Peninsular bighorn sheep can get water from cacti, splitting the spiny barrel cactus with their horns and eating its watery insides. But thanks to sprawl and agribusiness, both sheep and succulent are ...

Peninsular bighorn sheep can get water from cacti, splitting the spiny barrel cactus with their horns and eating its watery insides. But thanks to sprawl and agribusiness, both sheep and succulent are ...