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Black painting of the "Higgs bison" at Niaux cave in Ariège, France, dated to the Magdalenian period some 17,000 years ago. (D. Viet under Creative Commons licence via the University of Adelaide) ...
DNA research reveals an unexpected hybrid of cattle and bison once roamed the Earth — but while the cheekily dubbed Higgs bison is a new discovery for science, ancient cave art shows our ...
The Higgs Bison -- mystery species hidden in cave art. University of Adelaide. Journal Nature Communications DOI 10.1038/NCOMMS13158 ...
The nuclear DNA showed our Higgs bison was a hybrid — a cross between a female Aurochs, the extinct wild ancestor of modern cattle, and a male Steppe bison. We dated this hybridisation to more ...
Higgs Bison reseach by Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD) on YouTube. The evidence suggested that the creature was a hybrid, likely started by a female Aurochs and a male steppe bison, he said.
The team took to calling the mystery species "bison X" and jokingly dubbed it the "Higgs bison" while they were investigating. (The Higgs boson is a subatomic particle first predicted to exist in ...
A reproduction of a painting at the the Pergouset cave in ArdeÌ che, France, probably representing an ancestor of modern European bison that was created by the hybridization of cows and steppe ...
If you’re wondering about this new creature’s name, yes, it is a take on the Higgs-Boson, a subatomic particle suspected to exist since the 1960s but only confirmed in 2012.
Paleontologists cheekily dubbed the species the “Higgs bison” – a play on the famously elusive subatomic particle – because it was so mysterious. Little did they realize that the creature ...
One reason the genome of Higgs Bison looked so different from the European Bison is because that species went through a genetic bottleneck in the 1920s when the population was down to just 12 animals.
Researchers initially nicknamed the newfound bison the "Higgs Bison," because, just like the once-elusive subatomic particle known as the Higgs Boson, the bison's very existence had never been ...
The nuclear DNA showed our Higgs bison was a hybrid – a cross between a female Aurochs, the extinct wild ancestor of modern cattle, and a male Steppe bison. We dated this hybridisation to more ...