Meet Chris. He's a sheep who had the fortune (or bad luck, depending on how you look at it) to elude shearers in Australia for about five years before he was finally captured earlier this week. Good ...

It follows allegations of sheep mistreatment related to shearing practices which are still under investigation.

The world record for the most Merino lambs shorn in eight hours by a team of five is now held by the Riverina Shearing Gang including Australians Lochie Robertson, Toby Walker and Nick Lehmann ...

In some of the thatched granaries, sacks of shear remain stuffed, thanks to bad roads and lack of ready markets. Many farmers, here, had resorted to rearing sheep for wool to earn income, but poor ...

Australian authorities have rescued a wildly overgrown merino sheep and called in the country's leading shearer to give it an emergency trimming. The sheep, which the AFP reports is believed to have ...

When we were shown this utterly shocking footage by PETA US, which sheds light on the - at best, careless; and at worst, hideously violent - realities of sheep shearing in America and Australia, we ...