Like other herbivores, Elway, a San Clemente Island goat at the Santa Barbara Zoo, can extract energy-rich molecules from cellulose to fuel its activities. And he’s particularly good at it. Goats have ...

It turns out that the same fungi that live in the guts of goats, horses and sheep create the very enzymes we need to degrade the crude plant material necessary to produce the billions of barrels of ...

In Morocco, goats help disperse the seeds of local argan trees by spitting them out. This way of disseminating seeds might actually be more common than scientists have previously thought, according to ...