A little black goat appears to have joined an elk herd near the Devil’s Backbone, causing wonderment and a bunch of photo snapping among residents in the area. People who have seen the bull elk and ...

Wildlife officials are asking hikers to refrain from bringing domestic sheep or goats into bighorn sheep habitat in the Catalina Mountains because the domestic animals can transmit diseases such as ...

Pack horses are tried and true, and mules are proven hunting-gear haulers. Hunting elk with a trio of domestic goats, though, is an acquired taste. John and Nancy Clough of Dalton Gardens have joined ...

The first goats were domesticated about 10,000 years ago and that strain was disseminated all around the world, according to a new DNA study by French and Swiss researchers. Because goats are smaller ...

The USDA reports that since the start of the outbreak in 2022, over 82 million birds and over 200 mammals in the U.S. have been impacted. A baby goat in Minnesota tested positive for highly pathogenic ...

Researchers have analyzed ancient DNA of Neolithic domestic goats to reveal that the goats were introduced into the Southern Caucasus from the Fertile Crescent during the early sixth millennium BC, ...

Banning shooting bears in dens. Releasing feral cats into the wild. Plenty of hot-button issues show up on the Alaska Board of Game's agenda for a weeklong meeting on state regulations that starts ...

Goats are among the earliest animals domesticated by humans, cherished for their milk, meat, fibre, and companionship. Beyond ...

Goats have long been a favorite of farmers for good reason. They can survive on seemingly inedible scraps of vegetation in the harshest environments. And they provide milk, meat, skin, and fibers ...

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 ...

Goat hairs have been found in a grave structure that was discovered in the 1930s in Kauhava, western Finland. These are the oldest animal hairs found in Finland. From the perspective of Finnish ...

Indentation of several goat hooves in a brick from the archaeological site of Ganj Dareh. (Credit: The 'Tracking Cultural and Environmental Change Project') The DNA samples were sourced from the ...