Decoding the Global History of the Texas Longhorn

The study of the genome of the Texas Longhorn and related breeds, animated here, tells a fascinating global history of human and cattle migration. It traces back through Christopher Columbus' second voyage to the New World, the Moorish invasion of Spain and the ancient domestication of the aurochs in the Middle East and India.

The animation is based on an analysis, done by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, of almost 50,000 genetic markers from 58 cattle breeds. It's the most comprehensive such analysis to date. Animation by Marianna Grenadier.

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The Jamaica Creole cattle 1510-1948 same like Texas Longhorn the British took them out and introduced their cattle breeds. We also had a Jamaica Spanish horse and vaqueros long before Mexico.