The genetic history of the aurochs, an extinct cattle species, was a mystery until scientists analyzed DNA found in the bones ...

Aurochs are an extinct species of cattle that died out around 400 years ago. They once roamed Europe, Asia, and Africa and ...

The return of beavers, apex predators and ancient cattle is unwelcome news for some farmers – but there can be happy ...

The aurochs roamed in Europe, Asia and Africa for hundreds of thousands of years. Adorned as paintings on many a cave wall, their domestication to create cattle gave us a harnessed source of ...

More than a thousand cattle breeds found around the world can all be traced back to a common ancestor: the aurochs. Today, the scale of the dairy and beef industries has far-reaching consequences for ...

Aurochs were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art and their domestication gave us cattle. Now scientists have analysed their bones to learn more about them — and the influence of ...

The aurochs roamed in Europe, Asia and Africa for hundreds of thousands of years. Adorned as paintings on many a cave wall, their domestication to create cattle gave us a harnessed source of ...

The results of an international study describe the genetic development of the aurochs (Bos primigenius), the wild ancestor of domestic cattle, during and after the Ice Age. The central European ...

Tauros have been bred to look similar to an ancient breed of cattle Cattle bred to resemble aurochs, large wild-roaming cows and bulls that have been extinct for 400 years, could be introduced to ...

Analyses of ancient DNA from aurochs — large, wild cattle that co-existed with humans for millennia — reveals how early humans tamed these beasts and bred them with domesticated cattle for ...

Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin, together with an international team of researchers, have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs – the animals that were the focus of some of the most ...