Sheep have been part of human life for over 11,000 years. First domesticated in the western Fertile Crescent, their impact extends far beyond providing meat. Their wool transformed clothing, their ...

This has not always been the case. The animals that we now call sheep were domesticated around 10,500 years ago from wild Asiatic mouflon. These wild sheep grazed an area called the Fertile ...

Meerkat is a social mammal that's native to Africa's desert. This small animal stands upright and lives in burrows. It's ...

The earliest sheep-herding village in the sample in central Turkey has genomes that seem ancestral to later populations in the wider region, confirming an origin in captures of wild mouflon sheep ...

confirming an origin in captures of wild mouflon over 11,000 years ago in the western part of the northern Fertile Crescent. By 8,000 years ago, in the earliest European sheep populations ...

The earliest sheep-herding village in the sample, Aşıklı Höyük in central Türkiye, has genomes that seem ancestral to later populations in the wider region, confirming an origin in captures of wild ...

New DNA research uncovers how ancient sheep migrations shaped farming, revealing key domestication and breeding traits over 12,000 years.