Ancient DNA brings to life the history of the iconic aurochs

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Oct 30, 2024, 12:00 pm355 pts
Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin, together with an international team of researchers, have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs—the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art—by analyzing 38 genomes harvested from bones dating across 50 millennia and stretching from…

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