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 ...

Agricultural Census was just released. We use census data to track the trajectories of the critical infrastructure needed to maintain a viable domestic cattle and sheep industry. It’s unfortunate but ...

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 ...

These outbreaks can kill off entire herds, and they’re usually transmitted by domestic sheep and goats, or by the wild horses and burros living on public land. Read Next: In Utah, a Desert Bighorn ...

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 ...

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 ...