As someone who helped out with the St Kilda Soay sheep project as a volunteer in 1992, 1994 and 1996, I hope that the owners, the National Trust for Scotland, consider their choices very carefully ...

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Changing winter conditions are causing Scotland's wild Soay sheep to get smaller despite the evolutionary benefits of having a large body, researchers report in a study that shows how climate change ...

It is well established that weakened immune systems in old age affect people's health and fitness, but a study suggests that it is also an issue for wild animals. Researchers studying wild Soay sheep ...

Winters in the windswept Scottish St. Kilda islands have gotten steadily warmer over the past 20 years and the rising temperatures are whittling away the islands' number of black sheep, replacing them ...