Scientists say Beefalo are all beef, no -alo. Breeders disagree ^31.4%

Science News - By Libby Riddle - 7/7/2026, 4:30 PM

Confirmation Bias 11.1% - Appeal to Authority 11.1% - Anchoring Bias 8.9%

“It was a surprise to us to discover that most of the Beefalo individuals we sequenced did not have detectable bison ancestry,” says Beth Shapiro, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Shapiro and her colleagues study the genomes of species known to produce hybrids, including bison and cattle, and... more