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 ...

"The aurochs went extinct approximately 400 years ago, which left much of their evolutionary history a mystery. "However, through the sequencing of ancient DNA, we have gained detailed insight ...

If you’ve ever bitten into a beef burger, I’m sure you weren’t thinking about cows’ ancient ancestor the aurochs. But your burger wouldn’t have existed without this now-extinct, colossal, horned beast ...