Chillingham has carved out a reputation for itself due to two unique features – its historic castle and its distinctive ...

Inbreeding is thought to cause reduced genetic variation and diminished viability. In the January 18 Nature, Visscher et al. studied the genome of a viable herd of cows, Chillingham cattle (Bos taurus ...

This village is often overlooked for it's home to less than 100 people and yet it's full of haunting stories and houses a breed of animal rarer than the panda ...

Inbreeding Isn't All Bad A geographically isolated population subjected to a bottleneck event and then the inevitable inbreeding seems a recipe for genetic disaster, yet the Chillingham cattle of ...

Scientists have found that a herd of inbred feral cows in the north of England is almost genetically uniform and yet seems not to have suffered as a result. The research by Edinburgh University-based ...