Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient sheep buried in an elite grave in Egypt show the oldest evidence of humans deliberately deforming the horns of livestock.

A new study has decoded a mysterious plague that swept across Eurasia thousands of years ago. An ancient strain of plague (Yersinia pestis) has been identified in a 4,000-year-old domesticated sheep.

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research by Aberdeen scientists suggests that Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) relates to an ancient timing mechanism in the brain dating back millions of years. Discoveries by a ...

DNA from the skin of this mummified sheep leg allowed researchers to study sheep husbandry practices in ancient Iran. Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum and Zanjan Cultural Heritage Centre, ...

Archaeologists working in the Southern Ural Mountains have uncovered an unexpected clue about how an ancient plague once moved across Eurasia. A tiny sheep tooth found at the Bronze Age site of Arkaim ...

Just like dogs, there are many breeds of sheep with their own unique characteristics. People tend to imagine sheep as fluffy and white, but they actually come in many shapes and colors. They also come ...

CARLETON-SUR-MER, Quebec (CTV Network) — DNA analysis of a 1,600-year-old mummified sheep leg found in Iran has uncovered clues as to how the ancient people of the Middle East lived. The sheep leg was ...

A recent study from researchers at the Universities of Dublin and York have taken what might seem like a bizarre approach to learning about the past: instead of examining the text of documents from ...

The Faroe Islands, an archipelago between Norway and Iceland, were once believed to have been settled by Viking explorers in the mid-9th century CE. Thanks to new analysis of ancient sheep DNA, the ...