Sheep (Ovis aries) have woolly coats and strong flocking instincts. Goats (Capra aegagrus hircus) are independent browsers with hair coats. Sheep graze on grass; goats browse on leaves and shrubs.

There are about 1,700 wild bighorn sheep in 17 herds in central and eastern Washington. In March, Washington transported 20 bighorn sheep to Utah in an effort to keep the Chelan Butte Herd smaller in ...

Corrections & Clarifications: A prior version of this story misstated the breed of the goats. They're South African Boer goats. CHINO, Calif. – They're small, ill-tempered, incessantly hungry and, if ...

Two Super Bowl ads appeared to feature a screaming goat. In fact, one of them was a sheep. A goat and sheep guru explains why it's hard to tell... News bulletin: You know that Super Bowl ad from ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. (Santa Barbara, CA, April 25, 2024) Two different flocks of fuzzy four-legged grazers can be seen in Elings Park in coming ...

Goats (and sheep) have been recruited in the effort to fight wildfires. Northern Spain has a "Fire Flocks" project, in which dozens and dozens of the ruminants chip in by doing what they do so well: ...

In one of the most bizarre spectacles in agriculture history, nicotine-addicted Judas goats once led sheep to slaughter down livestock’s version of the green mile. The aptly named Judas goats, ...