IN NATURE, March 12 (p. 451), a specimen of the jaw of this animal is referred to as having been exhibited at a meeting of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, followed by the remark: “It is ...

When farmer Gow, the father of two children, brought the Heck cattle to his Upcott Grange Farm, it was the very first time that the once extinct creatures had set foot on British soil since the Iron ...

The results of an international study describe the genetic development of the aurochs (Bos primigenius), the wild ancestor of domestic cattle, during and after the Ice Age. The central European ...

Previous studies had shown that humans first domesticated a now-extinct wild ox, the Bos primigenius, about 10,500 years ago in west Asia. This domestication gave rise to two major cattle groups, the ...

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