Goats have outperformed sheep and alpacas in a series of cognitive tests, suggesting they’re the sharpest minds in the barnyard.

Conflicts between herders and the wild ancestors of their yaks, camels and reindeer are a serious threat to both people and wildlife, writes a scientist who has seen these clashes firsthand.

New research peers in to the gut of a goat named Elway to identify a possible culprit for methane. The findings point to fungi.

What a hungry Red kite tells us about human-animal relationships.

A widespread and fatal sheep and goat plague virus is more likely to infect livestock when they're an owner's sole livelihood, a study in Tanzania shows.

Urine salts offer clues to how people went from hunting sheep and goats in the wild to managing them as livestock.