Baarack the sheep captured the world’s attention recently for looking like a gigantic ball of wool with a nose and legs. A construction worker found Baarack wandering the Australian bushland and knew ...

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Unlike a goat or a horse, or any other livestock for that matter, sheep wool is much like human hair: it never stops growing (here’s what that looks like). While the main detriment for people with ...

A sheep lost in the wild for years in Australia was unrecognizable after having a whopping 57 pounds (lbs) of wool were sheared off. Some 18 rescuers spent five hours carrying the animal, named ...

A sheep named Baarack received a much needed shearing after rescuers in Australia found the abandoned animal with more than 75 pounds of wool weighing it down. Edgar’s Mission Farm Sanctuary, an ...

At the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival, the "Sheep to Shawl" challenge is simultaneously cut-throat competitive and warm and fuzzy. Each team is made up of one sheep and five people: one shearer, three ...

The shear madness has ended. Chris the sheep, famous for a coat that was five times larger than average, has died. Little Oak Sanctuary in New South Wales, Australia, posted the news on Facebook. “We ...

THE letter under this title, by Prof. J. Cossar Ewart, in NATURE of Mar. 19, contains some observations so divergent from those we have made here that it seems desirable to contrast the two. He ...