Sometimes it pays to be mediocre. A new study shows that sheep with a 50/50 blend of genes for small and big horns pass along more of their genes over a lifetime than their purely big-horned brethren, ...

Just when you thought we'd reached peak unicorn, a sheep in Iceland has been discovered masquerading as the real thing. A ram, born last spring to family farmers Erla Porey Olafsdottir and her husband ...

The Marches, Shropshire: The sheep struggles, trapped in a fence wire. I try to separate one from the other When ley lines of fate and wonder converge on a place, something extraordinary happens. Just ...

The Soay sheep population has been the subject of a long-term project addressing a number of questions relating to their evolution and ecology (see Clutton-Brock and Pemberton (2004b) for more ...

Blue sheep in Nepal’s Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve appear to be more wary of humans than those in a nearby conservation area where hunting isn’t permitted, a new study shows. Researchers say the ...

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