All we know for certain is that cattle came from aurochs, their larger, fiercer, extinct wild ancestor. In a new study of ancient aurochs genomes published in Nature, Sinding and other researchers ...
Cows have had a bad press. But a missing part of the story is that in Scotland and elsewhere, wild herds, like tauros, are being used to ...
Domestication of cattle began around 10,000 years ago. Early humans discovered that using aurochs’ meat, milk, hides and bones greatly benefited their survival. This led to the deliberate breeding of ...
The auroch was a giant horned cow, the wild ancestor of modern domestic cattle. Amesbury History Centre is bidding for a grant to build a life-size model of the animal, made out of mosaic tiles.
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 ...