Incredibly, geneticists found that our peace-loving cows descended directly from these wild, out-of-control aurochs. A 2010 paper established that zebu cattle - the Indian subspecies of modern ...

Speculative life restoration of the Indian aurochs. Until four hundred years ago, a wild, long-horned ancestor of cattle roamed across much of Europe. The last of these stately creatures — known ...

Aurochs have been deep within the human psyche ... from Scandinavia to the Indian subcontinent), the historical record is quite slim on exact descriptions. And in all likelihood its size ...

An extinct species of cattle—the aurochs—that died out some 400 years ago, would be the perfect animal to "de-extinct," says ...

The first cows brought to the Americas by explorer Christopher Columbus originated from two extinct wild beasts from India and Europe, a new genetic analysis shows. Because the breeds analyzed ...

The aurochs roamed in Europe, Asia and Africa for hundreds of thousands of years. Adorned as paintings on many a cave wall, their domestication to create cattle gave us a harnessed source of ...

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 ...