From domestication to the use of milk and wool to cultural and economic developments, sheep have played a central role in the evolution of human societies. Without livestock like sheep, as well as ...

Archaeologists working in the Southern Ural Mountains have uncovered an unexpected clue about how an ancient plague once ...

Stumbling over the rugged alpine landscape of the High Uintas Wilderness, a bighorn lamb is coughing and struggling, ...

The discovery of plague DNA in a 4,000-year-old sheep bone is rewriting the story of one of humanity’s most feared pathogens, ...

Many domestic animals can prosper in the wild despite having adapted to thousands of years in captivity. This phenomenon offers an interesting window into the process of adaptation to natural ...

BILLINGS – Hundreds of bighorn sheep in eight herds, along with domestic sheep, will be collared in Montana this summer as the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks launches a large-scale study ...

Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae (M. ovi) is a bacterium commonly found in domestic sheep and goats across North America. While it usually causes mild illness in domestic animals, it can lead to fatal ...

A wildlife conservation group recently agreed to pay a Colorado rancher to move his domestic sheep out of the high country in order to free up the territory for a herd of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep.

Like the majority of Colorado’s big game species, the success of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep is up against habitat loss and ...

The high peaks of the southern and central Sierra Nevada are home to a unique and endangered animal, the Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep. John Muir called them “the bravest of all the Sierra mountaineers, ...