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

Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin, together with an international team of researchers, have deciphered the prehistory ...

Aurochs went extinct around 400 years ago which left much of their evolutionary history a mystery — until scientists ...

Geneticists have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs -- the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art -- by analyzing 38 genomes harvested from bones dating across 50 ...

New research shows that European aurochs consisted of three distinct populations – Western European, Italian and Balkan.

Dan Bradley, Professor in Trinity’s School of Genetics and Microbiology, who led the study said the findings suggest nearly ...

Geneticists at Trinity College Dublin were part of an international team of researchers who have uncovered the prehistory of ...

It was at this point that the gargantuan image of aurochs came looming in the horizon. The fate of historically distressed and acutely discomfited nations reminds one of the plight of aurochs just ...

The aurochs is the ancestor to all domestic cattle species, but before it was bred into everything from the Hindu cow, to the Black Angus, to Scotland’s Highland bull, it was a keystone species that ...

“I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And that is the ...

The Scottish Highlands could soon greet some new residents: a breed of super-beefy wild cattle that have been designed to possess the appearance of aurochs, the untamed ancestor of all domestic ...