Recently, scientists conducted the first analysis of the Niata cow's anatomy and genetics, to find out whether the animal's shortened jaw and skull affected its ability to eat and breathe ...

Ancient surgeons may have practiced dangerous skull-opening procedures on cows before operating on people. A previously excavated cow skull from a roughly 5,400- to 5,000-year-old settlement in ...

Here’s how it works. About 5,000 years ago, humans used crude stone tools to puncture a hole in a cow's head, making it the earliest known instance of skull surgery in an animal. It's unclear ...

Now, for the first time, a definite example of cranial surgery has been found in an animal: specifically, a nearly complete cow’s skull discovered at a Neolithic site that dates to 3,400 to ...