In the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, one of the region's highest risk areas for human plague, Himalayan marmots are the primary carriers of the infectious bacterium Y. pestis. Y. pestis infection can be ...

Modern wild sheep, Ovis, is widespread in the mountain ranges of the Caucasus through Himalaya, Tibetan Plateau, Tianshan-Altai, eastern Siberia, and the Rocky Mountains in North America. In Eurasia, ...

Chinese researchers found that Tibetan sheep, making up about one-third of China's total sheep population, could transmit deadly bacteria to humans. A study published on Thursday in the journal PLOS ...

BEIJING, May 11 (UPI) --Researchers believe a new fossil -- and the new species it represents -- proves mountain sheep originated in the highlands of Tibet. Scientists have long argued that the last ...

The nomads of Phala reside 200 miles west of Lhasa on Tibet 's cold remote "northern plateau" at altitudes between 15,000-16,500 feet. As they have done for thousands of years, these nomads subsist by ...

XINING, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- Northwest China's Qinghai Province has invested 124 million yuan (about 19 million U.S. dollars) in the Tibetan sheep industry over the past two years, local authorities ...

China's latest must-have luxury for the ultra-rich, to go with mansions and sports cars, is a large, slobbery dog with massive amounts of hair best known for herding sheep in Tibet. Once banned by the ...

Woolly rhinos and many other large, shaggy prehistoric animals first evolved their cold tolerance in Tibet, which served as the evolutionary cradle for Ice Age mega plant-eaters, according to a new ...

In the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, one of the region's highest risk areas for human plague, Himalayan marmots are the primary carriers of the infectious bacterium Y. pestis. Y. pestis infection can be ...

Paleontologists reports a new genus and species of fossil sheep from the Pliocene of Zanda Basin in Tibet. This finding extends the fossil record for the sheep into the Pliocene of the Tibetan Plateau ...