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 ...

While the region offered a great diversity of fauna, Middle Paleolithic humans favored hunting the ancestor of cows, ...

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 ...

A new platform for hikers and explorers in Slovakia Slovakia has a new social network, one focused on hiking: Turistník.sk. Its developers say it is designed to inspire people to discover new places.

But sometimes an enormous tusk would spill out and clatter onto the deck, or the remains of an aurochs, woolly rhino, or other extinct beast. The fishermen were disturbed by these hints that ...