Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Cows are the mother of us all, or at least the wet nurse. They nurture us long after the women who birthed us, and provide meat for supper, leather for shoes ...

A cow preserved in formaldehyde, one of British artist Damien Hirst's most famous works, ran into an unlikely obstacle on its way to a Tokyo museum: Japan's import ban on British beef. Hirst's "Mother ...

FOR THIS HERFORD STARTS IN AN UNLIKELY PLACE. >> I THINK IT WAS RIGHT HERE. HALEY: HOOFING IT THROUGH A CONCRETE JUNGLE. IT IS NOT WHERE YOU WOULD EXPECT TO FIND A COW. AND THAT’S NO BULL. >> IT IS ...

How, ranging across cultures, might we describe some of the characteristics of the cow? Try some of these possibilities, and ask yourself whether they make a good fit with your own assumptions about ...

Two decades ago, Chicago got caught up in cow fever — not bovine spongiform encephalopathy, but a benign form of art-cow madness. Craft-augmented cow statues in that summer of 1999 started up across ...