Goats (Capra hircus) have been domesticated for over 10,000 years. For some, they’re meat. For others, they’re milk producers ...

Among the many standout features found in the animal world, horns rank as some of the most multifunctional and fascinating. A variety of mammals—from deer and rhinos to antelopes, buffalo, goats, and ...

A wildlife biologist explains what hunting feral goats on the island of Lanai is like, and how locals approach the tradition.

Are you ready to get to know your animals? Here are 57 African animals with horns - 12 of which we'll highlight in detail.

Humans have watched and learned from animals who treat their ills with bioactive plants. This animal wisdom has a scientific ...

In the mountainous terrain of the Kashmir Himalayas, a rare and majestic wild goat – the Kashmir markhor – is competing for ...

The chevrotain is a strange mashup with a rodent’s pointy snout, tiny pig-like hooves, and fangs like a saber-toothed tiger.

For Eid al-Adha, the preference for rams over sheep among many Muslims stems from the tradition of following the example of ...

Climate change could be helping the flesh-eating screwworm fly spread, undoing decades of progress—and the United States ...

A small number of other farmed species are also affected, including male dairy goat kids. It can be contentious to kill healthy young animals, raising ethical issues surrounding the denial of ...

A four-year-old male goat with a history of neurological disorder was euthanized. It presented uncommon nodules in the brain and lungs associated with multiple abscesses, predominantly in the spleen ...

Let’s hope proceedings in Switzerland aren’t hijacked by aliens with mullets and goat horns. Or perhaps if you’re Eurovision-sceptic, let’s hope they are. Let the games begin in Basel too.