Sheep shaped human history for 12,000 years. Scientists traced their migration, domestication, and genetic evolution.

Sheep have been part of human life for over 11,000 years. First domesticated in the western Fertile Crescent, their impact ...

Artificial insemination technology, currently used to improve breeds of cattle in the country, will now also be used for ...

Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans ...

Ancient DNA analysis reveals that sheep were domesticated over 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. By 8,000 years ago, ...

The genetic improvement of sheep and goat breeds will be done through “selective ... donkey and sheep milk; egg and wool under an umbrella scheme. One of the larger goals of the NLM scheme ...

Each year, the UK sheep industry lambs 15m breeding ewes in a huge variety of systems and locations. From sea level to hill ...

The Roscommon crest has been updated to include the correct breed of sheep as part of its design. It was pointed out by sheep breeders recently that the crest features the incorrect breed of sheep ...

America has long had an unsettled relationship with milk. Another upheaval is underway. In politics and in culture, milk is suddenly inescapable.Credit...Shawn Michael Jones for The New York Times ...

Now it’s more like seven to every New Zealander. Blame cows, which are now bringing home the bacon. Huge tracts of flatland once used for sheep farming were converted to dairy pastures as the global ...