Most sheep have thick wool coats and need to be sheared every year to prevent them from overheating during the summer months.

When we think about intelligent animals, farm species aren't usually the first to spring to mind. We may picture tool-using primates or puzzle-solving crows. But my recent research suggests that sheep ...

Sheep and goats are closely related, both having been domesticated and used by humans for fiber, meat and milk for millennia. But they aren’t similar in all ways. One possible difference, newly ...

In 2019, Joel Berger and Forest Hayes were scoping out grizzlies in the Rocky Mountains when they saw something peculiar. Through their spotting scopes, they saw white dots on the landscape about a ...

There are about 1,700 wild bighorn sheep in 17 herds in central and eastern Washington. In March, Washington transported 20 bighorn sheep to Utah in an effort to keep the Chelan Butte Herd smaller in ...