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 ...

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 ...

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

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