An international team of geneticists compared DNA from modern cows with DNA extracted from the bones of domesticated cattle excavated from archaeological sites in Iran. The scientists concluded that all modern domesticated cows are descended from a single herd of aurochs that lived 10,500 years ago. “A small number of cattle progenitors is consistent with the […]

A total of five, small, eighteenth-century telescopes crafted from cow bone have been found in Amsterdam over the past 40 years, and now they have been examined by Marloes Rijkelijkhuizen of the University of Amsterdam. The luxury eyepieces may have been used as opera glasses, or to get a better look at things on land or […]