Four teams competed in the 2022 sheep-to-shawl competition at the PA Farm Show in Harrisburg Wednesday night. The teams — Friends Thru Fiber, Twisted Sisters + a Dude, Fidget Spinners, and Butler ...

The scientific name for domestic sheep is Ovis aries, classified by Carl Linnaeus. Sheep belong to the Bovidae family, which includes cattle, goats, and antelopes. In 2019, India's sheep population ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published Jan. 11, 2018. One of the more unusual events at the Pennsylvania Farm Show is the sheep-to-shawl competition. The long-established sheep shearing ...

Sheep (Ovis aries) have woolly coats and strong flocking instincts. Goats (Capra aegagrus hircus) are independent browsers with hair coats. Sheep graze on grass; goats browse on leaves and shrubs.

A recent discovery that eight captive sheep can discriminate familiar from unfamiliar human faces from a variety of perspectives has rocked the world of those who study animal cognition as well as ...