The UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) today announced the country's first avian flu detection in a ...

By 8,000 years ago, in the earliest European sheep populations, the team found evidence that farmers were deliberately selecting their flocks – in particular for the genes coding for coat colour.

Sales of lamb are predicted to rocket in the UK as Brits seek an Easter treat and sheep flocks across the EU plummet ...

This migration reshaped human populations, altering the ancestry of European societies. The same genetic shift occurred in sheep. By the time of the Bronze Age, roughly half the ancestry of ...