Yaks are coming back. At least they are in a remote reserve on the Tibetan Plateau. Researchers recently counted nearly 1,000 wild yaks in a rugged northern area of the plateau known as Hoh Xil, which ...

In wild yak societies, mothers with young venture on steeper terrain and slightly higher elevation than either males or females without young a new study shows. The study reported that wild yak ...

A geographic and wildlife scientific survey team has announced a sighting of the largest ever known herd of wild yak in the Kunlun Mountains, a de-populated zone between Xinjiang, Qinghai and Tibet.

A well-loved Nepalese restaurant with Northern Virginia roots is continuing to succeed at its second location in Ballston, serving up a unique delicacy: yak. Himalayan Wild Yak opened at 1010 N. Glebe ...

A large wild yak chased a car as the frantic driver reversed away to escape the attack. The shaggy-haired bovine had been grazing on the roadside when it saw passers-by gawping at it from inside their ...

ARLINGTON, Va (7News) — In this week’s Around Town segment, our Roxanne Strouk visited a new Ballston restaurant, Himalayan Wild Yak, which specializes in authentic Nepalese cuisine. Restaurant-goers ...

Additional showers and storms west of I-95 this evening will lead to more flooding concerns through tonight by Kidd O'Shea TOPICS: Himalayan Wild Yak is one of the most talked about new restaurants in ...

Snow leopards, wild yaks and other iconic wildlife on the world’s highest mountains and great steppes are becoming “fashion victims” of the surging global trade in cashmere, new research has revealed.

They are big mammals — wild yaks, muskoxen, saiga, takin and more — possessing a multitude of wildly ingenious evolutionary adaptations that allow them to live at the margins, in Asia’s coldest, ...

A former Denny's restaurant in Vernon Hills could become home to a new business offering wild boar, yak and other specialties. As proposed, the familiar sit-down restaurant at 890 Milwaukee Ave., on ...