The Lehigh Valley Zoo is celebrating the recent birth of a scimitar-horned oryx, a species of antelope that's considered extinct in the wild. The zoo in Schnecksville is among those participating in a ...

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico - A Las Cruces resident snapped a photo of an oryx wandering through the city on Sunday along the campus of New Mexico State University. "They are beautiful creatures," said ...

The scimitar-horned oryx has been brought back from extinction in the wild. Conservationists hope it could help slow the spread of the Sahara Desert. When Marie Petretto and John Newby arrived in ...

Last September, researchers at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia, were sitting at their computers poring over data that had been delivered via satellite from a ...

PHOENIX — The Phoenix Zoo has been a longtime player in Arabian Oryx conservation, and two calves were born at the facility in mid-February. One of the younglings is visible to the public at the ...

The Lehigh Valley Zoo recently welcomed its 10th oryx calf born there in less than a decade. The zoo announced Wednesday in a news release that the calf, born Aug. 4, is a scimitar-horned oryx, which ...

After an hour or so, the animal's owner, Reed Gleason, showed up with a bucket of grain and coaxed it to lay down. Gleason said the animal was a male scimitar-horned oryx named Yellow Nose, and that ...