News alert: the sheep of Scotland are shrinking! On Soay Island, off the western coast of Scotland, wild sheep are apparently defying the theory of evolution and progressively getting smaller. Why? In ...
No one knows for sure when or how they got there, but Soay sheep (Ovis aries) arrived on the isolated, wind-swept Scottish island of Soay sometime during the Bronze Age, thousands of years ago. In the ...
A Soay sheep on the island of Hirta, St Kilda archipelago, Scotland. Photo by Martin Stoffel. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...
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