The assertive cave picture on Earth once existed in the hybrid bison

Within 15 years of research, scientists were not convinced that such bison had wandered on Earth .

But according to Nature Communications, when studying the paintings of the cave Cro-Magnon people and the bones of ancient animals, a group of Russian and some other scientists proved that ancient times on the Left The land already has hybrid animals of two species of ancient bison - those who became the ancestors of the modern bison and those later tamed into domestic cattle.

According to scientists, finding this variety is very interesting.

Until recently, researchers still suspected whether or not in the wild there was such an ancient breed and they often jokingly called "the Higgs cow". This name stems from the play of the Higgs boson, which refers to the particles associated with the Higgs field or "God's seeds" when the theory points out the existence of this elementary particle in 1964, but only until 2012 does it prove I can.

Of course, the new breed does not have anything to do with quantum physics, but according to scientists it is interesting to find this breed. Number is the introduction of completely new species due to hybridization is an extremely rare phenomenon , especially in mammals. Amerasians often do not leave the next generation, and in some rare cases when a child is born, the next generation " dissolves" in a parent (such as modern humans of European origin). Europe and Asia carry between 1 and 4% of the Neanderthal genome, but that does not mean that during the breeding period, humans became a new species.

There is some indirect evidence that nearly 120,000 years ago, the offspring of two species of ancient bison still exist. Since 15 years ago, scientists have discovered such evidence, but only now do they dare to assert certain parts. When comparing rock paintings in some caves in French territory, they noted that ancient "painters" described bison with two versions, one of which corresponded to the Higgs boson, ie hybrid cattle The results of mitochondrial DNA that remain in the bones of previously discovered bison also prove that the hybrid bison once existed.