President Obama's heartfelt State of the Union plea for stronger gun safety laws was still fresh in mind when I received these pictures from a reader. The photos show an arsenal of weapons the reader ...

What do you get when you take the basic pattern, gas-operation and rotating bolt design of the Kalashnikov series of rifles, including the infamous AK-47, and transform it into a shotgun? The answer ...

What do you do when half a species dies practically all at once? That was the question that faced delegates from Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia and China when they met last week to discuss ...

Purpose of the study is to determine saiga’s seasonal movement and connection between source and sink populations of the saiga populations in Mankhan, Khuisiin Gobi and Shargyn Gobi. Moreover, sample ...

Did a Soyuz spacecraft cause the deaths of hundreds of endangered saiga antelope in Kazakhstan this week? Some ecologists think so, although scientists and the Kazakh authorities remain skeptical.

Spirited, slightly weird-looking and instantly recognizable, the Saiga antelope find safety in numbers during their spectacular mass migrations. But since the early 2000s, they’ve been considered ...

More than 120,000 critically endangered saiga antelopes — more than one-third of the worldwide population — have died in Kazakhstan since mid-May, and the cause of the “catastrophic collapse” is ...

ASTANA, Kazakhstan -- Kazakhstan is planning to cull up to 337,000 saiga antelope after the number of the once-endangered animal roaming the Kazakh steppe increased by tenfold in the past decade after ...