Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many ...

A new study reveals that Stone Age humans in Germany operated a 'fat factory' to extract nutrients from animal bones.

The hunting and gathering activities of early humans required a high-calorie diet consisting of a variety of ...

This article explores the fascinating journey from the wild aurochs to our diverse contemporary cattle breeds, revealing how this extinct species continues to influence agriculture, economies, and ...

The Ancient Aurochs: Wild Ancestors of Domestic Cattle Terraced-Prioksky Reserve Aurochs. Image by Openverse. The aurochs (Bos primigenius) emerged approximately 2 million years ago in India, ...

European aurochs ancestry proportions in post-Mesolithic Iberian Bos samples. Square brackets are showing Block-jackknife estimates of the 95% confidence interval. f4 ratio and qpAdm are using Bed3 as ...

Using genomic data from ancient and modern samples, this important study investigates the genomic history of cattle in Iberia, focusing on the admixture between domestic cattle and their wild ...

She took samples from the ten aurochs. It turned out that the aDNA (ancient DNA) of two individuals was so well preserved that they were suitable for deep sequencing and further analyses. These were ...

She took samples from the ten aurochs. It turned out that the aDNA (ancient DNA) of two individuals was so well preserved that they were suitable for deep sequencing and further analyses.

Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin, together with an international team of researchers, have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs – the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic ...