The DNA of three aurochs found next to the Elba shepherdess opens up a new enigma for palaeontology

EurekAlert! ^ | June 3, 2021 | PLoS ONE, Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

[Red Badger]

I think they all migrated to Texas via Mexico.................

[Robert DeLong]

An Auroch

[SunkenCiv]

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

[ComputerGuy]

...In the north of the peninsula, the oldest domestic cows are about 7 to 6 thousand years old...

[SunkenCiv]

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• Predecessor of Cows, The Aurochs, Were Still Living In The Netherlands Around AD 600 [12/21/2008]

[SunkenCiv]

Poor Bossie has to get new dentures.

[SteveH]

this entire topic is pure bull

[SunkenCiv]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

The auroch is where longhorn cattle got their long horns. :^)

[SunkenCiv]

Seems like people are still stampeding in here to look though. ; ^)

[SteveH]

discussing aurochs will make you horny

[BenLurkin]

Life was no picnic in prehistory.

She was caught between auroch and a hard place.

[SunkenCiv]

I should hoof warned people.

[SunkenCiv]

Now I’m jealous, that one was just staring me right in the face. :^)

[SteveH]

> 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 :)

[SteveH]

> I should hoof warned people.

You raise a mooooooooot point

[Red Badger]

The Texas longhorns came from cattle that were brought over from SPAIN by the conquistadores..................

[SteveH]

> Now I’m jealous, that one was just staring me right in the face. :^)

You are entitled to a mis-steak now and then