Sheep have become the latest species to be infected with bird flu after a single sheep in the UK tested positive for the ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (AI) evolves to infect a new mammalian species, having made the jump to dairy cattle almost ...

This is the impressive moment a sheep jumped through a ring of fire and balanced on a barrel at a farm show. Visitors were stunned to watch the well-trained woolly perform various tricks in ...

The investigation, carried out by animal rights filmmaker Joey Carbstrong, also showed sheep jumping barriers to try to escape as they were thrown or dragged into the restrainer before being killed.

As avian influenza is found in a sheep in Yorkshire, the close contact humans have with domesticated animals is an extra worry because the virus has more opportunities to jump species again - but ...