It was a baaaaaaad situation. One hiker was nearly killed last week after a goat went wild, attacking her and two friends while they were traversing the Alpujarra hills in southern Spain. A ...

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The sub-species of the Iberian mountain goat Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica became extinct in the year 2000 before its biological and phytogenetic characteristics could be explored in depth. A new study ...

Geneticists have discovered a previously unknown lineage of wild goats over ten millennia old. The new goat type, discovered from genetic screening of bone remains and referred to as 'the Taurasian ...

TARBES, France (AFP) — With a bumper litter of new kids, the recently introduced ibex population in the French Pyrenees is thriving more than a century after the native species of wild goats was wiped ...

Many preventive and emergency measures were taken under collaborative efforts of the governmental institutions and environmental conservation organizations for holding up/ eliminating the infectious ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – There’s a happy ending to the wild story of an exotic animal’s escape and escapades around Northwest Oklahoma City. A Nubian Ibex – a wild mountain goat native to northeastern ...

Outside of the Nancy Grace show, few people have had their final hours as poked, prodded and scrutinized as much as Ötzi, the “Iceman” who died high in the Italian Alps 5,300 years ago. Hikers ...

Hours before he died, "Ötzi" the Iceman gorged on the fatty meat of a wild goat, according to a new analysis of the famous mummy's stomach contents. The frozen body of the Copper Age hunter was ...

The Los Angeles Zoo has euthanized its herd of Nubian ibex after determining the goats were infected with a highly contagious and incurable strain of herpes. The zoo discovered the virus after six ...

Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin, together with a team of international collaborators, have discovered a previously unknown lineage of wild goats over ten millennia old. The research was ...