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Entertainment

‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Used Sheep Fur and Bagpipes to Bring Remake to Life

When Dreamworks released the animated feature “How to Train Your Dragon” in 2010, it seemed almost inevitable that a live-action…

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Environment

Bringing back the birds: the ‘ghost woodlands’ transforming England’s barren sheep fells | Environment

The Howgill Fells are a smooth, treeless cluster of hills in the Yorkshire Dales national park, so bald and lumpy…

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Environment

New reports tell us cattle and sheep farming can be sustainable – don’t believe them, it’s all bull | George Monbiot

The fire that has just destroyed 500 hectares (1,230 acres) of Dartmoor should have been impossible. It should not be…

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Environment

‘We don’t call them woolly maggots’: how wildlife campaigners put sheep at heart of rewilding plans | Wildlife

Woolly maggots, nature-destroyers – sheep are criticised by many conservationists for denuding Britain’s uplands of rare plants and trees. So…

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Tech

UK on alert after H5N1 bird flu spills over to sheep in world-first

In the UK, officials said further testing of the rest of the sheep’s flock has found no other infections. The…

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Environment

World’s first case of bird flu in sheep detected in England | Bird flu

Bird flu has been detected in sheep for the first time in the world, UK experts have announced, although they…

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World

Ancient DNA analyses bring to life the 11,000-year intertwined genomic history of sheep and humans

Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans…

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Tech

161 years ago, a New Zealand sheep farmer predicted AI doom

The text anticipated several modern AI safety concerns, including the possibility of machine consciousness, self-replication, and humans losing control of…

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