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Half-ton early bovines roamed 4-million-year-old grasslands in Europe
- June 3, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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The first large-sized bovines grew to up to half a ton 4 million years ago in the European Early Pliocene, an early step toward our modern diversity of large-bodied buffalo and cattle, according to a study published June 3, 2026, in the open access journal PLOS One by Leonardo Sorbelli of the Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Germany, and colleagues.
Originally published at Phys.org