When it comes to winning mates, larger horns are an asset for male Soay sheep. But those that grow them may be putting their young lives on the line. When it comes to winning mates, larger horns are ...

On the Scottish archipelago of St. Kilda, the Soay sheep may not have any natural predators, but they do have the elements to contend with: a lack of food, brutal weather that can kill off half the ...

The Soay sheep population has been the subject of a long-term project addressing a number of questions relating to their evolution and ecology (see Clutton-Brock and Pemberton (2004b) for more ...

More than 13,000 people have applied so far to take part in the next series of Castaway, seduced by dreams of an idyllic life on a remote island. The reality looks rather different to full-time ...

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 ...

There is no room for cabin fever on the island of Soay, a tiny blotch of land off Skye, where Robert and Anne Cholawo make up two thirds of its population. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to ...

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Scientists are celebrating the 30th anniversary of a unique research project which studies wild sheep living in the remote archipelago of St Kilda. Their work is focussed on the feral population of ...

This article is brought to you by our exclusive subscriber partnership with our sister title USA Today, and has been written by our American colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the view of The ...

Scientists are celebrating the 30th anniversary of a unique research project which studies wild sheep living in the remote archipelago of St Kilda. Their work is focussed on the feral population of ...