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Paleontologists Study 9,000-Year-Old Aurochs Bones and Wonder if the Beasts Were Tamed
For some 9,000 years, the bones of three aurochs — huge, extinct ancestors of modern cattle — languished at the bottom of a cave in northwestern Spain. A team of paleontologists have now genetically sampled the Mesolithic remains, which were found in the 1990s near a human skeleton, and they believe that the DNA could help…
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Animal Agriculture Could Cause The Next Public Health Crisis
Covid-19 is a zoonotic virus, meaning it spread to humans from an animals. Scientists aren’t sure which animal spread it to us, though they think snakes or bats might have spread it to us via pangolins. But it’s not just exotic, wild animals that spread diseases. Newe research shows the next global public health crisis…