The aurochs is the ancestor to all domestic cattle species, but before it was bred into everything from the Hindu cow, to the Black Angus, to Scotland’s Highland bull, it was a keystone species that ...

Farmers have said an extensive list of native breeds in Scotland could do the same job.

A herd of long-horned animals resembling cattle are being released into the Scottish Highlands. The hope is that they’ll fill the ecological role once played by the aurochs, an extinct wild ancestor ...

The story of our ancestors' diet is a fascinating tale of how environment and surroundings informed the food that was eaten ...

Neanderthals might have lived as ‘different human form’ instead of separate species, scientists say - ‘We demonstrate that ...