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 ...

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 ...

Highland cattle, belted Galloways, and even the giant tauros, bred to be like the ancient auroch, a species which once roamed Scotland, are being introduced by land managers to help increase ...

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 ...

The 70cm (27in) aurochs horn was spotted by Martin and Richard Morgan on Monday, in the middle of the estuary Two fishermen discovered a 3,500-year-old horn from an extinct cattle breed in the ...

Scientists are close to bringing back a huge ancient cattle species called an auroch. Aurochs roamed Europe for thousands of years until the last of their kind died in the Jaktorow Forest in ...

We conducted a comparative study of the ancient DNA from fossil bison, the Caucasian and European bison, and domestic cattle. The study revealed that Bison-X is a hybrid between aurochs and steppe ...