According to a new exhibition in Amsterdam, centuries of human intervention turned the animal into “a wool-producing machine ...

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 ...

From domestication to the use of milk and wool to cultural and economic developments, sheep have played a central role in the evolution of human societies. Without livestock like sheep, as well as ...

The way we selectively breed goats and sheep has shaped the course of their evolution. When I moved to Minnesota from Denver, I wanted to capture this notion of competitive livestock lineage.