All we know for certain is that cattle came from aurochs, their larger, fiercer, extinct wild ancestor. In a new study of ...

An extinct species of cattle—the aurochs—that died out some 400 years ago, would be the perfect animal to "de-extinct," says ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Incredibly, geneticists found that our peace-loving cows descended directly from these wild, out-of-control aurochs. A 2010 paper established that zebu cattle - the Indian subspecies of modern ...

Researchers determine the genome of all subspecies of the extinct aurochs and show the history of its development into domestic cattle / publication in ‘Nature’ The results of an international ...