Posted on 04/13/2023 9:22:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Humans have maintained a very close relationship with aurochs... since their beginnings, first by hunting them and then by breeding and selecting them. This extinct species of mammal is little known in the Peninsula because its skeletal remains are difficult to distinguish from bison. In fact, there have been references to the presence of "large bovids" in many sites because they cannot be differentiated. At a European level, there is also a lack of genetic data.
An international team of scientists... analysed the remains of B. primigenius from the Chan do Lindeiro cave (Lugo). These remains were found in a chasm together with the human fossils of the shepherdess of O Courel, "Elba", dated at around 9,000 years old. The aurochs analysed are not the oldest ones discovered, but they are the oldest ones whose mitochondrial DNA has been sequenced so far. Interestingly, although they were found together, they are genetically very different...
To extract information about the introduction of this livestock in Galicia, researchers sampled 18 cattle fossils of different ages from different Galician mountain caves, of which eleven were subjected to mitochondrial genome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis.
The study of the three aurochs revealed their kinship with aurochs from other parts of Europe... The results of the study indicate that settlers migrated to this region of Spain from Europe and introduced European cow breeds now common in Galicia...
In Italy, some researchers claim that the already domesticated cows had genetic contributions from local aurochs. The same holds for the British Isles. The contribution of local aurochs to cows is best observed in the nuclear DNA and was detected in some cases in northern European breeds.
In the north of the peninsula, the oldest domestic cows are about 7 to 6 thousand years old.
(Excerpt) Read more at eurekalert.org ...
I think they all migrated to Texas via Mexico.................
Modern Taurine Cattle Descended from Small Number of Near-Eastern Founders [2012]
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/29/9/2101/1077727
Complete mitochondrial genome of wild aurochs (Bos primigenius) reconstructed from ancient DNA [2013]
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23971194/
Ancient Aurochs Genome Contains the DNA Blueprint for Modern Cattle [2015]
https://www.milkgenomics.org/?splash=ancient-aurochs-genome-contains-the-dna-blueprint-for-modern-cattle
Ancient genome reveals extinct wild aurochs crossbred with early British domesticated cattle [2015]
https://www.ucd.ie/newsandopinion/news/ancientgenomerevealsextinctwildaurochscrossbred/
The Draft Genome of Extinct European Aurochs and its Implications for De-Extinction [2016]
https://openquaternary.com/articles/10.5334/oq.25
Poor Bossie has to get new dentures.
this entire topic is pure bull
The last of the aurochs (that was recorded anyway) died relatively recently, in the 17th or 18th century, in Poland. During the Third Reich, there was a claim that the species had been revived via selective breeding, one of that line is probably what is shown there.
The auroch is where longhorn cattle got their long horns. :^)
Seems like people are still stampeding in here to look though. ; ^)
discussing aurochs will make you horny
Life was no picnic in prehistory.
She was caught between auroch and a hard place.
I should hoof warned people.
Now I’m jealous, that one was just staring me right in the face. :^)
> Seems like people are still stampeding in here to look though. ; ^)
though the streams are swollen, keep them dogies rollin’
where is rowdy yates when we need him :)
> I should hoof warned people.
You raise a mooooooooot point
The Texas longhorns came from cattle that were brought over from SPAIN by the conquistadores..................
> Now I’m jealous, that one was just staring me right in the face. :^)
You are entitled to a mis-steak now and then
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