Geneticists have discovered a previously unknown lineage of wild goats over ten millennia old. The new goat type, discovered from genetic screening of bone remains and referred to as 'the Taurasian ...

Domestication of animals may have a genetic component, according to research led by Northwest A&F University in China. In their paper, "A missense mutation in RRM1 contributes to animal tameness," ...

A new study led by a research team from the Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG; CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB), with the participation of numerous Spanish scientific institutions, has evaluated the ...

The tiny, remote Italian island of Alicudi is home to only around 100 residents and, ideally, about 100 wild goats. This year, however, the ratio of humans to animals has become wildly unbalanced. The ...

Campaigners hoping to secure protected status for an ancient herd of wild goats are to have their case heard at the Scottish Parliament. More than 22,000 people have signed a petition calling for ...

A small domestic goat just scaled a six-foot brick wall like it was nothing, and the physics behind that feat are stranger than you’d expect.

The Sumatran serow, a sub-species of the Capricornis sumatraensis goat-antelope, is an animal that’s little-studied and little-understood, according to the handful of researchers interested in it.