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 animals were killed, they overturned a long-standing as... [4502 chars]
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