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 ...

Known as tauros – yes, like the Pokémon – the cattle have been selectively bred in the Netherlands to resemble and behave ...

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 ...

Cattle and humans have an intertwined history; people have been raising cattle for meat and hides for thousands of years.

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 ...

European researchers are claiming that the hoards of domestic cattle that exist today are descended from a small group of Eurasian wild ox called aurochs that roamed the Near East 10 millenia ago. In ...

Until four hundred years ago, a wild, long-horned ancestor of cattle roamed across much of Europe. The last of these stately creatures - known as aurochs - went extinct in the 1600s. But what if ...