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 ...

Goats were domesticated as early as 10,000 years ago in the area around the Zagros mountains in what is now western Iran. The finding suggests goats were one of the first animals to be domesticated, ...

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 ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Taiwan Livestock Research Institute has improved goat fertility as part of its plan to expand goat ...

Frequently the stuff of fairy tales, the relationship between humankind and goats just got a new chapter. A new East-West study based on archaeological and genetic research says ancient inhabitants of ...

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

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 ...

A juvenile goat in Minnesota recently tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). While HPAI has been detected in predatory mammals that prey on infected birds, this is the first ...