The aurochs are the wild ancestor of modern cattle and were large enough to feed 300 people.

Centuries after the massive ancestor of modern-day cattle went extinct, a new breed is being released in Denmark to rewild the terrain. Aurochs, or Bos primigenius, were a species of massive cow that ...

Research involving scientists from the University of A Coruña has succeeded in sequencing the oldest mitochondrial genome of the immediate ancestor of modern cows that has been analysed to date. The ...

A team of researchers at the University of Zurich has found that domestication of cows has led to reduction in cow brain size. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group ...

For some 9,000 years, the bones of three aurochs—huge, extinct ancestors of modern cattle—languished at the bottom of a cave in northwestern Spain. A team of paleontologists have now genetically ...

And while the aurochs may be gone, their descendants survive today in the millions, but as domesticated cattle. Surprisingly, in some remote corners of Europe, there are some “primitive” breeds of ...