Colorado Parks and Wildlife trapped and relocated a herd of 20 bighorn sheep. The sheep have been suffering catastrophic ...

The Amsterdam show features an eclectic mix of wool garments, life-size sheep replicas and philosophical musings about the ...

A video that has been making rounds on social media all week shows two bewildered-looking bighorn sheep crossing Palm Canyon Drive.

Sheep have been part of human life for over 11,000 years. First domesticated in the western Fertile Crescent, their impact extends far beyond providing meat. Their wool transformed clothing, their ...

Jared Bybee, the BLM’s Elko district manager, said moving the bighorn sheep by June is necessary “to prevent a large-scale die-off,” so the BLM plans to determine whether approval can ...

People have been keeping sheep in pens for around 11,000 years. Now scientists are shedding light on this millennia-old ...

DUBLIN, IRELAND—Cosmos Magazine reports that analysis of DNA samples taken from 118 sheep bones unearthed at archaeological sites in Europe and Asia indicates that early European herders bred ...

Sheep are now one of the most economically important domestic animals, and most live in man-made enclosures of some kind where they have a degree of protection from the elements and predators.

Also, by that time, the earliest domestic sheep genomes from Europe and further east in Iran and Central Asia had diverged from each other. However, this separation did not last as people ...