The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel May 11, 2026 • 18:30

A Farmer Abandoned Five Cows on a Remote Island in 1871. 130 Years Later, Scientists Opened Their DNA and Froze - The Daily Galaxy

By Arezki Amiri

What began as a small group of stranded cattle turned into a decades-long natural experiment, and the latest DNA results revealed something scientists did not expect.

Five cattle abandoned on a remote subantarctic island in 1871 built a wild herd that defied extinction for more than a century. When scientists finally sequenced their DNA decades after the last anim… [+4869 chars]

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A Farmer Abandoned Five Cows on a Remote Island in 1871. 130 Years Later, Scientists Opened Their DNA and Froze - The Daily Galaxy

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