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 ...

Humans have caused wild animals to shrink and domestic animals to grow, according to a new study out of the University of Montpellier in southern France. Researchers studied tens of thousands of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People have been keeping sheep in pens for around 11,000 years. Now scientists are shedding light on this millenia-old connection ...

Sequencing the genomes of domestic animals could be beneficial to animal production practices, animal health and welfare, and to our understanding of the genetic basis of diseases in both animals and ...

For more than six years, the U.S. Forest Service has wrestled with whether to continue to allow domestic sheep grazing in the Weminuche Wilderness, despite the risk it poses to the wild bighorn.

Stumbling over the rugged alpine landscape of the High Uintas Wilderness, a bighorn lamb is coughing and struggling, afflicted with pneumonia as the cold skies of winter set in. Here in northeastern ...

A desert big horned ram begins a jump down a steep incline on red slickrock.© MelaniWright/Shutterstock.com It's no surprise that a state as unique and fascinating ...