Saiga Antelopes Struck Again
February 9, 2017
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A virus in Mongolia's western Khovd province has killed about a quarter of the global population of saiga antelope, an ancient animal that once roamed the grasslands of the world with the woolly mammoth and the saber-toothed tiger.
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