Wanna see what the inside of a living cow looks like, mid-digestion? Well thanks to these fistulated cows, you can stick your arm right inside and grab some half-chewed grass. Video evidence awaits.

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?We are famous for the cows with the glass stomachs,? said William Saville, herdsman for the Virginia Tech Dairy Center. You may have heard the rumors. Catie Morin, junior biological systems ...

It’s not every day you come across a dairy cow whose stomach has a porthole, but for the rest of the weekend, visitors to Harford County’s Farm Fair will be able to meet Gracie, the North Harford High ...

Portia is a cow at Tufts university. She has been living with a large hole in her stomach since 2002. It looks life-threatening, but it's not. The hole was put there on purpose so scientists can study ...

The fistulated cow system allows direct access into the animal’s foregut. This enabled researchers to incubate biomass-containing nylon bags to isolate rumen microbes associated with a defined plant ...