Recent DNA analysis has uncovered that a Bronze Age sheep from Arkaim, a settlement in the southern Urals (situated in modern Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, near ...

The DNA of Yersinia pestis bacteria has been found in a Bronze Age sheep, offering a clue to how the plague may have spread through prehistoric farming communities ...

Now, a genetic study of ancient sheep bones sheds new light on their early domestication, dispersal, and adaptation. Sheep were first domesticated from wild Asiatic mouflon in what is now Türkiye ...

As early as 8,000 years ago the team found evidence that farmers were deliberately selecting their flocks – for example, for the genes coding for coat colour. Sheep have been intertwined with human ...

The ancient Minoan palace of Zominthos on Crete, located at a height of 1,200 meters, shows that Minoans were highlanders too ...

A new genetic study of hundreds of ancient sheep remains, which date across 12 millennia, is shedding light on the intertwined history of sheep and humans. The work, led by geneticist Dan Bradley ...

A Sheffield man has been fined £65,000 after admitting cutting down several ancient woodland trees ... and buildings on the land were going to be used to house sheep and goats. The Magistrates felt it ...