The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife adopted a new rule last week intended to reduce the risk of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae transmission from domestic sheep and goats to bighorn sheep. The ...

More than 22,000 people have signed a petition seeking to protect the animals on Langholm Moor.

This story originally appeared on The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In one corner, there is the agile climber with steak-knife-like horns. In the other is America’s largest ...

NACHES, Wash. (AP) — State and federal biologists plan to euthanize wild bighorn sheep in central Washington to curb the spread of a deadly pneumonia outbreak. Biologists will spend the next several ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep stands atop a ridge. (Photo by MelissaMN / Adobe Stock) The world of wild sheep conservation hit a ...

How many bighorn sheep can the greater Hells Canyon region support? Not too many years ago, that question might have seemed absurd to wildlife managers. Bighorn numbers were stagnant at best. A ...

Like the majority of Colorado’s big game species, the success of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep is up against habitat loss and disturbances, a changing climate, and growing recreation and human pressure ...

The damage at first sounded like a ranch talk that increased with retelling. Then corpses would be found in central Texas ...

A bid to grant protected status to an ancient herd of wild goats roaming the south of Scotland has been rejected by MSPs, ...

People around the world keep more than two billion sheep and goats for their meat, milk, and wool, or as pets. But despite the ubiquity of these domestic animals, few people may know that they have ...