The genetic history of the aurochs, an extinct cattle species, was a mystery until scientists analyzed DNA found in the bones ...

The researchers zeroed in on this date using ancient DNA from a single male yak that lived alongside domestic cattle and yak–cattle hybrids in a settlement known as Bangga, a community in the ...

A new study involving geneticists from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) has deciphered the prehistory of aurochs, the long-extinct animals which gave rise to domestic cattle. Although the animals ...