On Dec. 28, 2019, a video supposedly showing a cow in Uganda with three large horns was widely circulated on social media: We were initially skeptical of this footage for a number of reasons. For ...

Sometimes big horns earn big checks, Fritsche says, ... After castration, males' horns grow longer.) These cattle were beautifully colored, with whites, browns and blacks blended together.

As cattle are large, slow-moving land mammals, they were vulnerable to faster predators as they migrated across the land in search of food and water. Horns provided vital defense against attacks.

Genetic and morphological tests reveal that the horns are simply cow horns that have been carved and twisted by local people. New Scientist Local hunters had told biologists who found the horns in ...

“When I got into this 10 years ago, if you had a cow in the 60s, tip-to-tip, it was a big deal,” he says. “All my cows are in the 70s or I don’t even have them anymore.” ...